thread: 2009-08-17 : District 9
On 2009-08-18, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
Carrie and I ran out the door when we suddenly realized we could "make" the 7:30 showing. We missed the first couple of minutes, coming in as Wikus is showing the pic of his wife.
It messed with some clich??s pretty hard, which was great. The "minority" guy doesn't die to save the honkey, the aliens aren't necessarily good people, the hero really only understand oppression when he's feeling it.
I was kind of hoping he was going to die at a certain point to finish turning the clich?? on its head, but the ending was really satisfying anyway.
Matt, Jackson was the producer, not the director. Neill Blomkamp was the director. Jackson reportedly kept his hands off and let Blomkamp expand Alive in Joburg the way he saw fit.
