D-9

District 9 is film that takes the "classic" alien story and changes things up a bit. Directed by Neill Blomkamp, the idea behind this film (and this is of my opinion), is to portray humans as they really are. In most alien stories, the outsiders are the scary, weird, or torturous group, but in D9 its the other way around. The story centers around one guy who worked in the alien ghettos and ended up getting sprayed but something of there. This causes him to change, a slow change from human to the very aliens he tried to encamp and control. As the story goes on he ends up fighting with them and trying to help them get their ship working again so they can go back home. In turn leaving this man to become fully alien, leaving his family, his wife, and his once human life, to wait on the word of an aliens return, 3 years from now.

Theres alot of things about this movie that really get your attention. The action is completely awesome. Showing the brutality for the humans really made my emotions towards to aliens swell in sadness. I also thought watching this man change from human and pretty much a racist, to one of them and experiencing what they were going through, was a process. At first i did not like him but then obviously when he began to change, my perception of him sorta did too. He was still a idiot and a tad proud but i felt bad for him especially having to leave his wife alone. That part broke my heart at the very end, when he was just holding that little tin creation of his.

Symbolism was a major factor in this movie. Like i mentioned in class, the first part of the film is a documentary and when asking the white south africans what they thought about having the aliens around, they talked so bad about them, like they were animals and such. But in reality when making this film those interviews were real, and they were actually asking them what they thought about the black indigenous groups the live there in REAL LIFE. The hatred that was portrayed in the movie towards those aliens, were all really just showing us how the white people in that area treated the blacks.

In the end i feel that God is hurt when we treat people unkindly. plain and simple. Although this movie is about aliens, its showing us how badly we treat people who are different than us or think differently. As christians its our duty or be the light of the world, to have christ work in us so that others will see Him in us. leading my example. so lets not be meanies, and lets treat the aliens nicely when they come, ok?