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Originally Posted by Aramike
Saw it last night with wife. We loved it. Was poignant, ballsy (seriously, doing a movie about even alien segregation based in South Africa, with its history of apartheid is pretty gutsy), seemed more anchored to reality than most scifi, plus it had some really good action.
As an aside, even the name is smart: District 9 is no doubt a reference to District 6 near Cape Town, that saw forced relocation in the '70s.
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Thats interesting, at first when I saw the posters/trailers I thought it was a kind of social commentary about the Polish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII but with aliens. But then I noticed it was about something totally different which I still don't know what it is
