2009 · sci-fi · thriller · south-african
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp1h 52m2009
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.
Our read: District 9 (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · thriller · south-african entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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