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Yesterday, at the input to which the film spoke of District 9, I mentioned it was based on a short film made by the director in 2005. Today, how could it be otherwise, I bring you the short in question: Alive in Joburg.

The film is only available 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 embedded in a flat and simple-minded argument that gender did wonder whether there would definitely dead . Fortunately for all of us in District 9 has come a film can get around to all topics of science fiction that fresh air and give us all we had fans clamoring for.

In 2005 the South African director Neill Blomkamp, previously known for its ads for a certain brand of car in which a car turning left in robot and dancing, she decided to turn science fiction that directing a short called Alive in Joburg . In this short told a story of aliens as never before told. The aliens living on our planet confined in a sort of concentration camp. The film was recorded in half documentary and half in normal movie mode, and no 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 Neill gave the opportunity to take their idea into a feature film. With Jackson as a producer and script writer Blomkamp as director was born and District 9.

As in the film, in District 9 the mothership of aliens would not even reach 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 nothing more than a malnourished refugees who are placed in a village of shacks which ended up being a concentration camp while humanity thought to do with them. In the first half of the film we see how "kind" 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 film in every rule as they were in the last century films such as Star Wars or Blade Runner. But as time goes decide whether this film or not in the pantheon of freak I recommend everyone to go and see it.