So disappointed for the first time.
I have always regarded IMDB as the best weather vane for judging a movie, and it has never let me down—at least, not in a movie rated above 8 points. Later, I watched "The Mist", an original book by Stephen King, directed by the director of "Lost", a movie rated 7.9 on IMDB. Contrary to the extremely high evaluation it has received, I decided to fail it halfway through seeing it. There are too many pretentious things in it, things that are so stale and smelly, things that move back instead of forward. This is the first time I have encountered Waterloo on IMDB. Fortunately, although its score is quite close to 8 points, it is still only 7.9 points.
Although IMDB has a few under-named works that are overrated, and some of the films that I personally think are good, the scores are lower than average, but overall, its scores are quite reasonable, which is why I have always chosen it as a reference for movies. Important reason. Basically, movies with a score of 7.4 or more and more than 4,000 votes can be regarded as high-quality films (except those literary and artistic films). As far as my memory is concerned, movies with ratings above 8 have never let me down. I repeat, never. I have seen this "District Nine" on IMDB with a score of 8 or more. I took a brief look at the synopsis. Well, the idea is very good. No matter how you look at it, this should be a very exciting film. However, when I was finally able to feast my eyes last night, this film I was looking forward to so much disappointed me not long after it started—I even wanted to stop watching it immediately to express my anger of being deceived— — I have never watched an 8-point movie before and wanted to close it during the first 15 minutes.
One very important reason why I like Hollywood movies is that its constantly updated creativity is always supported by a reasonable logic. When I sit in front of a computer or TV, I never forget that I am watching a movie. As an audience, I allow the director to use a whimsical idea as the basis of the whole work, but then you must develop your plot according to the generally accepted logic. The 1.8 million aliens in the sky above Nesburg in "Zone Nine" have been on Earth for 20 years. Very good, our audience likes to watch such novel stories. However, next, it must tell the story in accordance with the logic of "people". What is the logic of "people"? To give a simple example: a murderer who has no humanity may be indifferent to killing a 3-year-old girl, but he can’t eat shit anyway, because despite his brain problems, his intestines are still Human. However, the director of "District Nine" had to create a character with brain problems and gastrointestinal problems.
At the beginning, the director explained in the narration that "it (referring to the spaceship) did not land in Washington, nor in an international metropolis like New York or Chicago", which laid a plausible logic for the following story. -Leaving aside the United States, the story can develop in accordance with the director's existing ideas. The problem is that in a real world (the director tried his best to constantly emphasize this to the audience through celebrity interviews, news reports, camera shooting, etc.), it is impossible to leave the United States alone with such a big thing as aliens on the earth." World Police". Even if the United States agrees for various reasons to allow those superstitious Nigerians to have close contact with those aliens, do business, um, even have sex, I don't think other countries will agree to do so. You might say that MUN is actually an organization in which various countries unite to deal with alien incidents. The accent of the hapless protagonist seems to prove this. However, there are two areas in the film that are rough, if not loopholes, at least. In such an important organization, nepotism can happen, and he still keeps saying: "Although he is my son-in-law, this does not affect me to promote him." In addition, if the MUN is a unity of various countries Yes, then, there should not be only one person in charge, but one committee. But the director didn't think about all of this very well, which is really very different from the attention to details of other 8-point movies.
In order to let everyone better understand the absurdity of this play, let's look at the subsequent plot development according to the director's logic for the time being. South Africa or some other country monopolizes all contacts with this alien spacecraft and aliens. There are politicians who want to obtain the alien's incredible weapon technology. This immediately brought two problems. First, on our planet, many countries have a department called an intelligence organization. Of course, ordinary people of us don’t know how these organizations work, but one thing is certain, they will never let that ambitious country or politician succeed—the success of this country or politician means huge military expenditures in other countries each year. It must be increased substantially. However, I watched the whole show, but I couldn’t find a person involved in gathering intelligence. Could it be that all other countries were still racking their brains for the financial crisis at that time, so they couldn’t take care of the fact that aliens came to the earth on such a day? Is it a big deal? Second, I think maybe I’m too slow, but I can’t figure out why those aliens have such powerful weapons but don’t use them, but use them to buy and sell food; The fluid of the home, the aliens didn't even unite to snatch the vial, but only two people were doing this important thing related to the welfare of all 1.8 million aliens. As for the story that happened to the hapless and kind protagonist, I can't see any difference from the plot of "The Flies."
In my opinion, apart from the original good idea, this "District Nine" is completely useless. The best proof is that I deleted it from the computer immediately after reading it.
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