Her Dress was Made of Stainless Steel
There's a remarkable juxtaposition between old and new, to create a kind of meta-commentary about media and entertainment.
And also, it's just fun.
August 2009
District 9’s Confusing Hodge-Podge
I loved "Alive in Joburg" so much when it was released. I'm afraid that filmmaker Neill Blomkamp did more in that original six minute short film than in the whole of "District 9." Some ideas just don't expand well, I guess.
I had difficulty with "District 9" on two fronts:
1. Logic. I know it's churlish to point out logical inconsistencies, but they were SO HUGE. And so central to the point of the entire movie. We are told that the aliens' space ship broke down over Johannesburg. After a few months we broke into the ship and found all the aliens stumbling around half dead from starvation. We airlifted them down to the ground, where they lived in refugee/concentration camps for twenty years.
I had difficulty with "District 9" on two fronts:
1. Logic. I know it's churlish to point out logical inconsistencies, but they were SO HUGE. And so central to the point of the entire movie. We are told that the aliens' space ship broke down over Johannesburg. After a few months we broke into the ship and found all the aliens stumbling around half dead from starvation. We airlifted them down to the ground, where they lived in refugee/concentration camps for twenty years.