debut, no star, and a cost of less than 30 million U.S. dollars. A big gift given by El Blomkamp in the form of a pseudo-documentary in 2009, a small production science fiction film that is exciting, addictive, and unavoidable. It is full of drama and tension. Every minute in the theater is full of drama and tension. Excellent value for money.
After the psychological impact of The Fly in 1986, D9 allowed me to see another possibility of telling about anomalies, covering a wider range, and the slightly shaken picture creates the realism of an 8mm hand-cranked camera. In the new imaging technology In the era of flooding, even the tattered and dirty alien slums are so cute.
Blomkamp allowed aliens to land in his hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa. The local apartheid system gave birth to the inspiration of "Aliens in Johannesburg", telling an anti-traditional science fiction story in the form of a pseudo-documentary. In essence, it is what is happening in every corner of the world every day, the chronic illness of civilization development, the panic of the system against aliens, and the individual's anxiety about identity.
This is not a hard science fiction film, so there is no need to stick to bugs in details. From the hull design and control system, it can be seen that the aliens have advanced technology. In contrast, their living conditions can only be described as slums: a woman in front of the camera is filled with indignation about how aliens plunder the earth’s property. At that time, the aliens in the background were looking for food that could feed their stomachs; when the urban management team led by the male lead was forced to relocate, the aliens with their heads out of the ruined house smelled of gunpowder, and then they were beaten. Or for escape. Don’t worry about why they don’t use super weapons or the robocop. Perhaps as a prawn said, be polite to the people on earth. In this story, the aliens seem to be barbaric, and they will slap people to death at every turn. He is honest in nature, loyal, true temperament, and not too terrible. The son of Chris Prawns is smart and clever, very likable.
Apartheid is already an old topic. This is the victory of the system. The strong will abuse the weak from the physical to the psychological, and control all aspects from the economic foundation to the ideology. Then it can point out the various ills in the segregated zone in a decent way. To sum up the reasons, propose solutions, as if these problems only exist in lower races and not in civilized society. In the quarantine zone, various mental illnesses of individuals who are restrained emerge in an endless stream, and often the quarantine zone can only become a depravity abandoned by God: here is the only code of conduct that the weak and the strong eat, survival is the only code of conduct, lack of materials causes looting, and violence becomes part of the survival instinct. Illegal transactions have become the hidden rules of a deformed society. Not only people are isolated, but also air, food, and thoughts. They stagnate in a closed environment, slowly decay, and are spurned along with the quarantined people. The quarantined people were unwilling to be labelled as inferior races. They began to establish their own new order. The ruling and the ruled classes also produced their own cultures and survived stubbornly, no matter what kind of culture they have. How rough and rough. Compared with the civilized world outside the quarantine zone, there is less hypocrisy here. No one has time to talk nonsense. If you want to survive, you have to learn to be smart, and there is no need to whitewash anything. Everyone’s living condition will be exposed to the public’s eyes. , There is no concealment, the most real thing appears in the worst living environment. Thirty years ago, the big boss played by Marlon Brando chose to exile himself in "Apocalypse Now", build his own quarantine zone, and want to be the god there.
The mainstream media likes to use the most eye-catching method to convey public opinion. When the alien came, the media rushed to report it immediately, so the people were amazed and panicked; the alien was isolated to D9, and the media reported on the local living conditions with enthusiasm. Disgusted; a human being accidentally turned into a prawn, and the media caught the excitement and broke the news, so the people had a target to vent their dissatisfaction, and each one was at risk, taking this as a warning. Facts have proved that the dominant power of the mainstream media over popular thinking has not been relaxed at all for nearly a century, and there are many people who are led by the nose.
D9 used the dictation of some bystanders to report various social news. The most funny thing is that Mr. Wikus was vilified and had sex with aliens. He is really a good hand to make waves. Since the news says this, everyone sees it that way, experts. They also talked about their own thoughts, and looked worried and ridiculously serious.
Our poor and lovely Mr. Wikus has become a highly anticipated sinner and superstar from the moment he was infected. He could have lived a peaceful life with his wife and children. This curiosity is a bit too strong, and a bit clumsy guy from the beginning. Let people sweat, we can't forget that he was a part of human beings. Cronenberg was very interested in the alienation of humans, which prompted this weird guy to make a heavy-tasting movie called The Fly in 1986, which imprinted a deep impression on my memory. D9 was indeed very helpful in certain vomiting bridges. This terrifying movie pays tribute to the world. Since it is the PJ producer who has filmed "The Crowd of Corpses", bad taste is always inevitable. Wikus, who just appeared on the stage, is a good gentleman who loves his wife, is dedicated to his work, and laughs a little silly. If it weren't for this unfortunate incident, he would be like most people, hoping to eliminate troublesome aliens as soon as possible, and at the same time be a good citizen of a society that is safe and self-conscious. .
Now things have changed. Wikus needs to complete a series of physical and psychological mutations in just three days. He has to tear his face as a good citizen to see what he is. The strange scientists back then couldn’t. Accepting comfortably the fact that he has become a big fly, then this incident can even scare Wikus, who is moderately intelligent, to death. Kafka showed his interest in alienation in Metamorphosis, using a big bug to break through the superficial social network. This melancholy Prague native showed extreme lack of confidence in identity cognition, pessimistically I believe that human identity does not come from the original heart, but based on the similarity of appearance, the similarity of language, and the similarity of habits. Compared with the strange scientist, Wikus is fortunate. At least his mind is not bad. For most of the movie, he only proved that he is a cowardly and useless little person. Exaggerating in front of the camera, trying to be humorous and professional. It is the same even when you have suffered a crime or a downfall. Doing things you once looked down on, such as beating, smashing, burning, killing and looting, in the face of the instinct to survive, you find yourself and the criminals in the slums all the same, but when people don’t put themselves in the place, I think I really are so different from the inferior nations in essence.
It would be too tragic if the protagonist is allowed to degenerate into a fallen prawn like this, so near the end, Mr. Wikus finally sees his conscience. We should respect him as: Mr. Wikus detached. The unrecognizable, pitiful and loving protagonist drove a powerful landline and began to fight for his conscience. Under the protagonist's true performance, the audience was very happy to see it. Depressed in despair, or erupted in despair, on the issue of identity recognition, D9's thinking is very clear: gregarious-self-expansion-panic-lost-rediscovery, after crossing the hurdle of anxiety, the protagonist gets a new life. Like a new species, it is no longer limited to its original identity, it can be fearless, rampage, and not lose its rationality, but abandon its original identity, break away from the old group, and join the new society.
Having said that, no matter how you abandon it, the original identity cannot be completely eliminated. In the end, the small flower made of iron sheet is the lingering love, a bond that maintains the protagonist and the old identity. It is a bit sad to see it. Concluding applause.
Through the outer shell of aliens, D9 is still telling the stories of people. The society itself is a huge living body with its own thinking. It continuously assimilates the constituent individuals in the body. For most people, it rarely breaks away. This living body rarely stands on its opposite side. Most of the time, people like to huddle together, discuss the same topics, and share a similar outlook on life. It is warm and safe in the group. But what if this living body is only instilling will into each individual to operate the entire system more effectively? How many people dare to abandon their original identity and join the new camp? Kafka is a timid rebel. In his dream, he would see himself standing naked in a pile of well-dressed people, saying that he was ashamed and frightened about it. He did not want to be in such a panic and fear, and he did not want to be frightened. Assimilation can only endure the endless restlessness and faint pain of the individual.
This D9 is perfect, there is no need to superfluous.
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