May 03 2009
District 9 Trailer: What Do You Call Alien Racism Anyways?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgLOvH_MMk
I’m not really sure how I feel about the new trailer for District 9, the high concept “alien discrimination” pic. It’s got an interesting set up, making us think we’re all going to be watching a movie about relocated Swine Flu infested Mexicans or something, but instead, nope, it’s aliens.
It’s a cool idea, but the movie kind of lost me with the blurred face alien interrogation scene. I think for something like this to work, the “oppressed people” can’t be CGI, or any sense of empathy goes out the window. It’s kind of funny when the humans say, “Why don’t you just leave?” like they’re your roommate’s cousin who has been freeloading on your coach for the past two months. Yeah aliens, get the **** out of here with your advanced technological and scientific breakthroughs, we don’t want you here!
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its actually called xenophobia. there was even a NES game of the same title back in the day.
It’s a cookbook!
[...] wasn’t really feeling the original District 9 trailer I saw, but it’s amazing what a little unblurring and Google alien translate will do for you. [...]
The set looks so authentically trashed, its really amazing. I don’t know who would be interested with the locals, when the amazing alien weapons technology can be exploited. There is no need to exploit the locals of that african area – because they arent interesting, and soon the aliens wont be either. Maybe we will all die – from this form of discrimination.
Boredom, the new – human, non-human discrimination. If you arent going home to something better, then your going to be trashed.
It’s actually not a set, they shot most of the movie in an actual landfill. That must have been fun.
It is not necessarily xenophobia, because that is the fear of anyone foreign or strange. And someone could be racist towards another species without fearing them, yes?
Skweek