I went and watched "District 9" yesterday. Without giving away details of the movie, I have to say, it's one of the most genuine movie plot's I have seen in the last couple of years. The trailer for the movie, basically gave nothing away. Watching the trailer I thought this would be just another Sci-fi movie based on alien invasion. I, however, did not read the plot synopsis before going to the movie so it was a total surprise for me.
I suspect, the plot of the movie was taken from common human suffering and aliens were used as a metaphor. Many of the sufferings depicted in the movie, are experienced by humans on a day to day basis. After you watch the movie, you will be able to relate to some recent events in Darfur, Sudan and other places around the globe.
I was exceptionally impressed with the lighting, mood and the general display of direction. Director of photography did an excellent job in creating the correct mood for the plots. I was engulfed in anticipation to see what would happen next. At no point during the movie, I could predict what to expect next. Even though the movie was about 2 hours, I didn't feel that any of the scenes were stretched to fill in time.
The movie was based entirely on Neill and Terri Tatchell's screenplay. Neill had shot a 6 minute long mini film in 2005, which had similar theme to it.
Wikipedia link to Alive in Joberg by Neill.
In conclusion, kudos to Neill Blomkamp for an excellent direction. It's a great movie and I recommend watching it =) .
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