Event Description

Come see District 9 presented on 35mm Projection on the big screen in L3!

An unmistakably 2000’s film, Neill Blomkamp’s debut is an apartheid story disguised as a science-fiction thriller. Beneath the mech suits and crazy guns and cars (amongst other things) blowing up lies a story about empathy and human (or in this case, alien) rights. Set 20 years after a spaceship carrying a horde of aliens arrives over Johannesburg, District 9 places us smack dab in the middle of a society that treats the aliens as second-rate citizens, living in segregated quarters, exploited by the authorities and having to resort to crime to make a living. Sound familiar? Troubles begin to brew up when the government starts a mass relocation program to move the aliens to the outskirts of the city. District 9 shows some of the best that 2000’s sci-fi had to offer, from a grimy look and frenetic action to the designs of the aliens and their technology, whilst telling a wholly human and forever-relevant story. [Anant Nambiar]

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