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District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo
JohnSmedley sent in a story about what might be the last SciFi film worth caring about this summer. He writes "Wired has an interesting piece up on the upcoming District 9 release. District 9 rose from the ashes of a failed Halo movie and expands on 'Alive in Jo'Burg' which is a South African short film by Blomkamp. Both the short and full feature films expand and explore a premise in which aliens in space are treated as badly as illegal immigrants and the underclass. The story begins as a damaged alien craft lands in Africa. The foreign race is quarantined in a remote area called District 9, and from there are subjected to xenophobia, and the desire of a multi-national conglomerate to steal their technology. The film is an exploration of what would happen in terms of segregation between an alien race and humans, subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human condition of greed, fear, and exploitation. District 9 will be in theatres on August 14'th, and you can view the trailers from the viewpoint of Multi-National United."
"I'm South African so yay for South Africans of all colours, shapes and broken accents"
How long since your last trip to J-Burg ? Remember the city as it was 15, say, 20 years ago maybe ? Clean and ordered ?
guess not.
a good picture being better than a thousand words...
http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/
I don't care if it's a rehash, if it's a good rehash it could still be entertaining, interesting and even mind provoking.
After all, lots of movies/stories are a rehash of ideas more than 2000 years old.