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District 9

Turkish title: Yasak Bölge 9

“You are not welcome here.”

2009 · 1 h 52 min
Directed by Neill Blomkamp · South Africa · Blockbuster Auteurs
ActionSci-FiThriller

Cast

Sharlto Copley Jason Cope David James

Plot

Twenty years after an alien spaceship stalled over Johannesburg, its starving inhabitants are kept in a slum, District 9. When Wikus van de Merwe, a bureaucrat, is put in charge of moving them to a new camp, he is exposed to an alien fluid that starts to change his body, and he finds himself a fugitive. Neill Blomkamp's 2009 film, shot in a documentary style, was nominated for four Academy Awards.

Sinekatalog’s take

Neill Blomkamp's South African sci-fi uses an alien refugee camp as an apartheid allegory. Shot partly like a documentary, it is rough, inventive and darkly funny before turning into action.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (758,848 votes)
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