For a film with a little depth like "The Ninth District", it is not necessary to talk about human nature at every turn, and to ask the ultimate without thinking about it. This is an unbearable weight of a science fiction film. We might as well put aside the inertia of thinking, go back to the present, talk about it, talk less about ism, and study more issues.
In the movie, the most common way for human beings to face alien civilization is to show a persecution paranoia. It is assumed that those tyrannical alien creatures are organized and premeditated to destroy the earth, and mankind bravely defends itself and finally saves it. The blue planet is immortal; this situation in "The Ninth Zone" has been reversed, and humans have become sadistic, treating those interstellar refugees as ants, trampling, insulting, and killing them at will. Fighting stubbornly shows the inferiority of our civilization; and brutality shows the arrogance of our civilization. In short, in the face of outsiders, it is always difficult for human beings to maintain a calm mind, always swinging at two levels of anxiety, and unable to engage in peaceful dialogue.
The civilization level of the alien "prawns" is obviously higher than that of human beings, so high that human civilization can be erased almost effortlessly, but after they came to the earth, they became a vulnerable group. It turns out that the organization of their society resembles a honeycomb. When they arrived on Earth, the female bee had already died and lost the backbone. All members lived by instinct and worked on their own. It was difficult to organize into a deterrent group, causing the tiger to fall into the river and swim in the shallow water. Be enslaved. The stage of the story was chosen in Johannesburg, the territory of blacks. Blacks have been trafficked and discriminated against and isolated in history. Now they are facing the grass-rooted prawns in the grass-roots, but they turn to be serfs and sing, just like the "untouchables" in the Indian caste segregation system. Become a Brahman, a great change in identity, and a domineering local snake. The black people treat the prawns just like the white people treated the black people back then, showing arrogance and prejudice. In the film, it is not difficult to see that “prawn” replaced “black” and “black” upgraded to “white”, while the protagonist of the film mutated from “white” to “prawn”. The replacement of triple identities provided the film Enough drama tension.
The most important change of identity happened to the protagonist Wikus. Wikus relied on nepotism to assume responsibility, and at first he was very proud and full of officialdom. His treatment of alien refugees is indifferent, even frivolous. He led his troops on rampage, and robbers searched houses and killed arbitrarily, and even burned the alien fetuses as roasted popcorn. It is really a villain to kill people. Rogue cheeks. When he was infected, he went on to change his mind, and his status as a "superior" was gradually lost, and he finally became a member of the prawn, experiencing refugee life, and had to empathize, empathize, and empathize with each other. He saw with his own eyes how the pride of human civilization developed into the arrogance of civilization, and even distorted into the cruelty of civilization. Humans who consider themselves superior (shrimp) like to arrange the lives of others, act as temporary gods, and face them. The government wants to expel the prawns that are considered "low-level civilization", the blacks want to eat them to nourish them, and the whites want to dismember them for experiments. The prawns who have lived on the earth for 20 years have not enjoyed the rain and dew of civilization at all. ――After Wikus fell from heaven to hell, something interesting happened: when he became "inhuman", the human inferiority from him was gradually eliminated, but he became more and more "human-like". ――He cared for his wife, tried his best to keep in touch with his wife while on the run, expressed his passion for his wife, and wanted to return to his wife; he used the red senior prawn at first, but later developed into a comrade-in-arms and gave birth to buddies. Righteousness, risking his death, contributed to the success of the Daxia father and son boarding the spacecraft. In addition to reflecting on the aggressiveness of human civilization, the film also criticizes the abnormal expansion of capital. In order to develop extraterrestrial weapons to make money, Wikus’ father-in-law can deny his six relatives and treat his son-in-law as a guinea pig for anatomical experiments. The same kind is as cruel as treating the different kind. This is a major chronic disease of modern society and a serious concern for civilization.
"The Ninth District" was released in 2009. It is mentioned in the play that the Red Shrimp and his son will return in three years, which is 2012. That is the year of destruction of the earth in the Mayan calendar. What will happen to outer space, becoming the "other" living on other planets? I dare not imagine.
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