The Movie District 9 was one of the best movies in the fall of 2009. The movie takes place in Johannesburg South Africa where an alien ship has landed and offloaded 1 million aliens. Immediately, a fence is put around their location, and it turns into a huge urban slum. In fact, the pictures are reminiscent of some of the worst urban slums on this planet; the Kibera Slum in Nairobi Kenya for instance.
Although, this is a science fiction thriller with some great action scenes, and lots of alien technology, it is also a metaphor or allegory for how humanity treats itself, and some of the problems in our own mirror, questions, challenges, and problems that we need to deal with; things which affect millions and millions of people across the planet.
Since the aliens in District 9 resemble Prawns, that is what they are called. Yes, it is a picture of racism and culture labeling. It's the same thing we do to each other, to dehumanize nationalities, races, and cultures that are different from ourselves. In fact, in the Movie District 9 it shows we are shown our own hypocrisy, and how bad we are treating our own species.
This is one movie, which everyone should see, and it is well worth watching with lots of very well done cinema technology work, but more importantly it is one that makes you think, and question what we are really doing, why we are doing it, and what we need to do to change.
One of the underlining themes that I got out of the movie was; "don't judge another, until you walk a mile in their shoes," and I think you'll understand exactly what I'm talking about after you see the movie. Please consider all this.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes that we need to clean this world up starting with all the concrete causing urban heat; http://www.ConcreteWashGuys.com
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