My favorite Sci-fi movie is District 9;
Not since Brother from Another Planet has a science fiction movie dealt so openly and efectively with the problems that humans create by dividing themselves up along lines of race and class.
When a giant spaceship parks over Johannesburg, explorers are told to find that it`s full of thousands of diseased, helpless aliens, who are now under the care of the South African government inside a determined territory beneath the spaceship. Wikus is a bureacrat put in charge of relocating the "prawn" from their town to a new refugee camp, and that`s when trouble begins. A type of alien liquid spread all over Wikus and thats when the movie climax starts to grow. A dark satire with incredible effects and a gut-punching story, District 9 manages the impossible treatment between two races, it is a political allegory that feels like an action movie.
Good choice, and very topical given that Mandela recently passed away and the movie was essentially an allegory for Apartheid. Your summary and critique of the movie is very well-written! 4
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