[QUOTE="sacredtext62"]I can already tell that this movie is going to be drawing parallels to the south African apartheid. Its going to be one of those subtle protests saying, "look this is what happens when we segregate, bad things happen, watch our movie!!, desegregation is always the answer, see our movie, it prooves it!!!11!!11!" Yea not falling for it.MrGeezer
It's more accurate to say that that's what I WANT.
Nearly all of the best science fiction is allegorical to something actually relevant to the human condition. Otherwise, you're just watching a bunch of aliens and robots.
Gattaca dealt with bigotry, 12 Monkeys dealt with mankind's beauty in the midst of inevitable futility, 2001 dealt with mankind's path towards becoming gods. After watching the xenophobic killfest which is Aliens (and don't get me wrong, it is a great movie), sometimes I want to follow that up with a movie whose message is a little less hostile, paranoid, and downright disturbing.
Hopefully District 9 can cement its place in the catalogue of RELEVANT science fiction, rather than just being another dumbass movie about aliens killing humans, or vice-versa/etc.
Yes, this is true, perhaps it can be slightly more anecdotal to real life events than recent flicks this summer. I personally couldn't even pick up the slightest indication of references to reality in a movie like transformers, albeit it was directed by Michael Baysplosions, but still, US army negotiating with talking robots from space? But of course the real reason I don't support this movie is not due to its ignorance, but the fact that I 100% disagree with its projected ideology. Not going to get into details, but that was my main gripe with it.
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