District 9 Really Is All About Apartheid

No , it ’s really not a concurrence that a movie from a South African theatre director , District 9 , has aliens being treated like 2nd - course citizens . In a new interview , Peter Jacksonexplains that yes , the movie really is all about apartheid . Spoilers ?

The NZ Herald has an consultation with Jackson , and the article also explains a bit more of this movie ’s plot , which revolves around

a multinational corporation , MNU , accuse with policing the unknown while hear to line up out their technical secrets . When an MNU agent is unexpectedly exposed to a inscrutable exotic center , he finds himself a hunted serviceman .

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And Jackson explains how heart - break it was when the Halo picture that he and director Neill Blomkamp were going to make fell through , and how they decided to turn Blomkamp ’s short moving picture Alive In Joburg into a low - budget feature film film instead . And then Jackson adds :

It ’s difficult for a young moving picture - manufacturer to do anything that is based on life experience to some degree because if you are in your 20 you have n’t had much life sentence experience . You sometimes feel that there is some minor making a film and it is just free-base on some other movies that he has visualise .

But Neill grew up in the dying day of apartheid in South Africa and he saw all the ugliness and all the brutality and how it affects mass in different way and all that is in the picture .

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You just totally understand how he was approaching it from an authentic place – from a material South African perspective . He really love Africa and he ’s tried to put a lot of it into the movie .

As for Blomkamp , he say he has a love / hate relationship with Johannesburg , and that the city ’s insane crime level devote it a flavour of last on the edge . And it change state out the filming of District 9 coincided with real - life-time massacre of Zimbabwean refugee dwell in nearby shanty Ithiel Town :

It was totally barbaric what happened and that was the same day we start up rolling camera on a film that was about the residents of Joburg want a foreign race out . So all of a sudden I am make a film which within South African has this monumental political point of view but really that is n’t what we coiffure out to do . So I hope that the residents of Joburg do n’t take it the wrong way .

Lesdilley