I’ve seen District 9 twice now.

But niggers are good to go.

I actually quite enjoy it as a film on both the switch-your-brain-off action movie and as a social commentary.

For those that haven’t seen it yet, seriously, do go and see it.

It’s a fantastic movie, based of a similar short film called Alive in Joburg, by the same director (Neil Blomkamp – who was offered directorship for the Halo film adaptation). The protagonist, Wikus (played by newcomer Sharlto Copley), is in the role of the hapless-idiot-turned-hero in a way that had me completely suspending my disbelief. I’m hoping Copley makes it to Hollywood, actually… Then again, all white South Africans are bad guys in Hollywood.

There are things that bugged me about it though. The use of African tribal music, which doesn’t really work in a South African apartheid type setting was odd… but hey, white person, what the fuck do I know, right?

The most frustrating thing though was the switch from the mock-documentary format at the beginning of the film to a regular action sequence… and then back to documentary at the end. Seriously, they could have kept it mocukmentary style the whole way through with some clever angle usage and inserting “dramatization” in flashing red letters in the bottom corner of the screen. Not hard really.

But here’s the thing. The metaphor for the extraterrestrials being Black people is just way too obvious. I’m thinking it must be deeper than that, and I think I finally figured it out!

District 9 is actually a metaphor for pubescent male magicians who like to hold onto phallic objects!

The movie seriously could have used a bit less violence, and some more playing sports and waving of wands to solve problems. At least they managed to get the made up language part right.

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