District 9 by Chris Kaatz

District 9 was an awesome movie! It was directed by Neill Blomkmap. This movie should not be viewed by younger audiences because of the violence that is involved in this movie. The basic plot of the movie is that an alien spaceship hovers over the city of Johannesburg. After little activity from the ship, the humans decide to drill into the ship in order to see what is inside. What they find, is an alien race that is without order, sick , and malnourished. The humans throw them into a ghetto and call it District 9. To keep the aliens in, walls are built and a security force is given the task of keeping the aliens inside. One man, after starting to change into an alien, risks his life to save an alien and his son.
The basic ideal that one can take from this movie is the need to understand other people before we jump to conclusions and judge them. We need to walk around in their shoes for awhile and see what it is like before we criticize. Other people may seem strange to us, but that is only because we do not understand them fully and don’t take the time to.
For a Christian, this movie should be a wake-up call. Far too often do we quickly judge others when we should open our arms to them. Jesus, did this. He came down to this earth as a child. A poor little baby and healed the blind and the sick. Jesus walked in the shoes of mankind. He is God. He is divine and yet He decided to come down to this earth to save us. To sacrifice all that he had. A Jesus character I see in this movie is the MNU agent. He saved us just like the MNU agent saved the aliens. The agent sacrificed his old life in order to save someone else’s. We should all take this lesson and love others as we love God and ourselves.