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11.11.10
By Nick Nunziata (Author Page, Facebook Page, Twitter Page)
What I’m Thankful For:
The District 9 Baby Alien.
He fix it!
This little adorable creature is not only a much-needed bit of heart in the cold and vicious District 9 (let’s go ahead and call it a classic) but also a fantastically real little gentleman by way of the special effects and interaction with his environment. When Wikus van de Merwe (the Sharlto of it all) first meets the little guy he’s outside of his little shanty playing in the sand. It’s so real and so cute, and something about the way his legs are splayed that just screams ‘reality’. There’s no showing off and in the horrible circumstances and conditions the ‘Prawns’ are living in, the film gets so much mileage from stuff like this little fellow playing with detritus to pass the time. You couple that with the way he talks and he’s irresistible. I cannot tell you how much it cheers me up to hear “I find something! I fix it!” uttered at the office. It’s magic!
Plus, he now has his own Facebook page.
…and for this I am very thankful.
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6 comments
Hated this movie, but loved that little guy.
"District 9" is the reason why I no longer give any movie a pass for shitty CGI.
Overrated film. Blargh.
Don't you have license plates to take photos of, and checks to not mail? Folks complained about Devin for years as he drove them from the message board … how's it taste now that you're on the other end?
What's up with all the sandy vaginas in the comment section above me? District 9 was one of the very best movies to come out last year (if not THE best). In a climate of bland, homogenised remakes and safe, generic storytelling, it was an ultra-violent piece of awesome. You twats don't deserve good sci-fi action movies, if this is the way you treat the bona fide gems.
District 9 could almost be a Philip K Dick adaptation, so grounded and everyday is it, capturing perfectly his recurring theme of the little man who thinks he understands the world but then finds himself swept along by events until he loses his very identity. Also, it fits into that ill-populated category of movies that treat aliens as neither aggressors nor omnipotent deities, and refuses to ladle on the apartheid parallels. Definitely a classic.
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