Bernhardt Jul 19, 2010 (edited Jul 19, 2010)
Well, y'know how I'm at least a year behind on things?
Finally watched District 9 tonight; it DEFINITELY would've been my favorite movie of Summer 2009, but I ended up seeing the G.I. Joe movie because...none of my friends wanted to see District 9. I've since learned how to go to the movies by myself.
The whole, shooting a movie as if it was supposed to be a documentary (see also: Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Quarantine, to name a few...) is a shtick that has since gotten on my nerves, but District 9 does it very well, and it only lasts about half the movie, as opposed to the whole thing.
The documentary format gives it a rather...comedic flavor that seems out-of-place; of course, the whole concept of trying to evict aliens from the ghetto you've condemned them to, and move them out to a concentration camp - and serving them an eviction notice and expecting them to sign it - IS darkly humorous.
But the film really gears into serious territory when it decides to stop the documentary format, and just focus on the discrimination that the humans have for these aliens.
Stories about discrimination, and especially stuff set in the third world, or just about slums or ghettos, always gets to me. Really, it's how I've romanticized my high school and college experiences up until now. You might think that's vane, but really, as people grow up, they go from ostracizing and socially abusing people in high school, to discrimination and politically abusing people in the world in general.
Other than that, I've really been turning to movies for entertainment value, but it's really good to turn to something thought-provoking, or intellectually-charged once in awhile, too.
