District 9
By Sarah Deschênes
The work is given to Mr. F.J. Bonkowski
For the class of English 102b-01
Cégep of Saint-Laurent – October 7th, 2010
Last week, we’ve been talking in groups about a movie that we saw. (16) My movie was called: District 9. This movie is classified as a science-fiction aliens war’s movie. The story of this film is kind of hard to understand because there’s a lot of politics in this film. It’s the story of Wikus Van de Merwe, a guy who works for the MNU, a government institution that works on the alien problem. Because Wikus is dating the daughter of his boss, he got a better job and he started to work on the field. It is at this point that we really see the special effects, examples: the aliens or explosion or even alien’s gun (that are really stronger than our guns). On the field, Wikus got infected by a liquid that make him transformed into an alien. The rest of the story explains how Wikus tries to return to his first form, a human. He got friendly with an alien and started to understand their situation. At the end of the film, he doesn’t have the choice to understand it, he need to understand it.
I read a text about this film, it was called: “District 9”: Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley are the ones to watch. This text was a review from Mark Farnsworth that I found in Internet. Farnsworth says in his review that District 9 is one of the best movies of the decade in its category. He says that the special effects are so good, so real, that he forgot it was only a movie. He really thought that there was an alien mothership in the sky of Johannesburg and that the aliens were really living in a ghetto called District 9. His opinion is that none of the parts were bad and he recommended to everyone to watch this movie. I remember that Farnsworth said that the producer, Neill Blomkamp, is a good one and that everyone should watch for his next films, they’re going to be great ones.
The second text that I read was called: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp 2009). This text has been written by Eric Mahleb. His opinion is a little bit different from the opinion of Farnsworth up there. He says that District 9 isn’t a major film in the categorie of science-fiction. Mahleb’s opinion is that it looks a little bit like an amator movie. There was a part of the story that isn’t “realistic”. One of those is that the liquid that Wikus got infected with is the gaz for Christopher’s spaceship, Wikus’alien friend. Mahleb says that it’s not as realistic as the rest of the movie. There is one thing that the author of the review loved about District 9, it’s that the producer succeeded to create such great special effects with such a low budget. It cost 30 millions to produce this film and a lot of movies cost a lot more for the same level of special effects. He recommended the film to science-fiction lovers, not to for people who don’t appreciate science-fiction movie enough.
My appreciation of this movie is simple, I really liked it. There was enough action to make the story actually interesting and the science-fiction special effects were really impressing. I was surprised to love this movie because usually, I don’t love those kinds of movie. But the actors, even the aliens, had real emotions, I was able to see the sadness in Christopher’s eyes when he saw his friend dead. I also appreciated the fact that they used the mystery of a secret zone of the government where they were praticing some experiences on aliens. Even if the end was predictable, the movie is really great and I recommend this film to people like me who like films with action, politics and sentimal parts.
By Sarah Deschênes
The work is given to Mr. F.J. Bonkowski
For the class of English 102b-01
Cégep of Saint-Laurent – October 7th, 2010
Last week, we’ve been talking in groups about a movie that we saw. (16) My movie was called: District 9. This movie is classified as a science-fiction aliens war’s movie. The story of this film is kind of hard to understand because there’s a lot of politics in this film. It’s the story of Wikus Van de Merwe, a guy who works for the MNU, a government institution that works on the alien problem. Because Wikus is dating the daughter of his boss, he got a better job and he started to work on the field. It is at this point that we really see the special effects, examples: the aliens or explosion or even alien’s gun (that are really stronger than our guns). On the field, Wikus got infected by a liquid that make him transformed into an alien. The rest of the story explains how Wikus tries to return to his first form, a human. He got friendly with an alien and started to understand their situation. At the end of the film, he doesn’t have the choice to understand it, he need to understand it.
I read a text about this film, it was called: “District 9”: Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley are the ones to watch. This text was a review from Mark Farnsworth that I found in Internet. Farnsworth says in his review that District 9 is one of the best movies of the decade in its category. He says that the special effects are so good, so real, that he forgot it was only a movie. He really thought that there was an alien mothership in the sky of Johannesburg and that the aliens were really living in a ghetto called District 9. His opinion is that none of the parts were bad and he recommended to everyone to watch this movie. I remember that Farnsworth said that the producer, Neill Blomkamp, is a good one and that everyone should watch for his next films, they’re going to be great ones.
The second text that I read was called: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp 2009). This text has been written by Eric Mahleb. His opinion is a little bit different from the opinion of Farnsworth up there. He says that District 9 isn’t a major film in the categorie of science-fiction. Mahleb’s opinion is that it looks a little bit like an amator movie. There was a part of the story that isn’t “realistic”. One of those is that the liquid that Wikus got infected with is the gaz for Christopher’s spaceship, Wikus’alien friend. Mahleb says that it’s not as realistic as the rest of the movie. There is one thing that the author of the review loved about District 9, it’s that the producer succeeded to create such great special effects with such a low budget. It cost 30 millions to produce this film and a lot of movies cost a lot more for the same level of special effects. He recommended the film to science-fiction lovers, not to for people who don’t appreciate science-fiction movie enough.
My appreciation of this movie is simple, I really liked it. There was enough action to make the story actually interesting and the science-fiction special effects were really impressing. I was surprised to love this movie because usually, I don’t love those kinds of movie. But the actors, even the aliens, had real emotions, I was able to see the sadness in Christopher’s eyes when he saw his friend dead. I also appreciated the fact that they used the mystery of a secret zone of the government where they were praticing some experiences on aliens. Even if the end was predictable, the movie is really great and I recommend this film to people like me who like films with action, politics and sentimal parts.
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