Extraterrestrials, which have haunted Earth for nearly 30 years, are becoming an explosive international problem. Stranded in Area 9, their fate is in the hands of the multinational MNU, which is interested in their extraordinary weapon, which only works with extraterrestrial DNA.
Wikus, an MNU field agent, contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA. This person who could decipher alien technology becomes the most wanted person. Outcast, isolated, without help or friends, there is only one place left to hide: District 9…
In 2009, the world discovered a talented young filmmaker who had previously cut his teeth creating visual effects for film and television: Neill Blomkamp. He still had a very famous and very intelligent short film “Live in Joburg” where he imagined in documentary style a city of Johannesburg suffering from immigration and integration problems… d extraterrestrial.
It’s enough to provide him with material and a matrix for his first feature film since trying to create a film adaptation of the Halo video game license. The result is District 9, produced under the auspices of the godfather of cinema many wish they had: Peter Jackson.
The result, brilliant and full of ideas, produced for barely $30 million, is a real slap in the face for productions with budgets nearly ten times that. Between the originality of the script, the semi-documentary approach, the virtuosity of the director, the perfect special effects, the power of the political metaphor that is still extremely relevant today, District 9 is undoubtedly one of the strongest science fiction films. 2000s.
We appreciate this all the more because Blomkamp has since struggled to get back up to the level of his debut, which has also had a lot of bad luck with many abandoned projects. We’ve been talking about a sequel to District 9 for years, which is also slowly coming to fruition…
Source: Allocine
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