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Yesterday, at the entry where I discussed the film District 9, I mentioned that it was based on a short film made the director in 2005. Today, how could it be otherwise, I bring you the short in question: Alive in Joburg.

The short film is available only in English. While it is understood quite well as find a subtitled version will update the entry.

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For a long time to go to the cinema to see a science fiction movie was going to see a rehash of the same ideas as always with the same kind of hero sausages in a flat and simple-minded argument that gender did not ask whether the dead would definitely . Fortunately for all of us in District 9 has come a film capable of turning all topics of science fiction that fresh air and give us all the fans we had been clamoring for.

In 2005 the South African director Neill Blomkamp, hitherto known for its ads for a certain brand of car in which a car turning left at robot dancing and decided to give a turn to science fiction that directing a short called Alive in Joburg . In this short told us a story of aliens as never before told. The aliens living on our planet confined in a sort of concentration camp. The short half was recorded in documentary form and half in normal movie mode, and did not cut in addressing issues such as xenophobia, or vandalism it provoked. A Peter Jackson, famous for directing the trilogy of The Lord Of The Rings , seemed to like the short and gave O'Neill the opportunity to bring his idea into a feature film. With Jackson as a producer and script writer Blomkamp as director was born and District 9.

As in the short film, in District 9 the mothership of aliens comes nowhere to Los Angeles or Washington or any other American city. Arrives in the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. The aliens were not power-hungry creatures who wanted to conquer our planet ... apparently they were only a few malnourished refugees who are placed in a village of shacks that became a concentration camp while humanity thought to do with them. In the first half of the film we see how "good" humanity treats its guests and in the second part ... I can not say: D

This film, for its originality, its iconography and its characters have all the ingredients to become a cult in every rule as they were in the past century films like Star Wars or Blade Runner. But as time goes decides whether or not this film in the Olympus of frikismo I recommend to all that you go to see her.