District 9 – The best Alien Film so far...



District 9 is a highly fictitious film. But you get involved so much that you begin to think as if something real is happening.
The director Neill Blomkamp has clearly captured the Human mentality when it comes to finding something new. Here in this film it is the Aliens. The mentality of the tech savvy educated and also the uneducated people are clearly shown. From the start of the movie you think as if something real has happened 20 years back and it has been captured in that manner with interviews and news footage.
The story is quite simple. But the creativity it has is simply mind boggling. I would rate this one as the best alien movie which has been filmed so far.

Wikus van de Merwe 
The film starts with an evacuation process for the aliens from a place called district 9 to district 10. The cause of it is, it is near humans and it has virtually turned into a slum. So Wikus van de Merwe played by South African actor Sharlto Copley is assigned as the head for the field operations. He looks timid and normal. Not the sort of an action hero. During the mission he is exposed to a fluid in a cylinder which is of the aliens. From that point he begins to change into an alien. The first visible change is, one of his arm becomes like the one of the aliens and there after he slowly begins to change. The MNU for which he is working takes him off and starts to study him. Learning that he can use alien weaponry which the humans where not able to and he is going to change fully to an alien. They plan to study him as a rare specimen eventually killing him in the process. Somehow he escapes and tries desperately to stay away from the MNU securities. In the process discovering an alien by name Christopher who could help him. After which the movie is shifted to top gear with some action scenes and finally Wikus helps the alien ship to leave earth before which the alien promises that he would come back in 3 years to help him change back to a human.


Then we are shown that the MNU’s secret research has been stopped and also all the aliens still left behind in earth have been shifted to District 10 and their numbers are growing. In the last scene of the film, an alien is seen in a junk yard with small pieces of white cloth sticking to it making a metal flower from the junk indicating it is Wikus who has changed fully. The film ends in a typical Hollywood film style where we are left to think what would be the end. I mean there are many possibilities but we are given the choice to think the best i.e. the aliens would come back and help Wikus change back to a human. The other possibility is that the aliens could come back and may attack Humanity.
The Film has good graphics, good performance by Sharlto Copley and also is not boaring at all even for a minute. Go for it.
My rating is 4/5.


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