District 9 Film Review: Lucky Avatar, Unlucky Prawn

Demarco 2022-04-23 07:01:12

It is also a time-travel into an alien, why is it so lucky to become an avatar, and so unlucky to become a prawn!

Very thrilling film, very exciting!

The structure and the dramatic conflict are arranged very tightly, there is no procrastination, no emptiness, and no cold scene.

It may seem a little ordinary at first, but after seeing it, I found that it is a very good foreshadowing for the follow-up, which is very cool!

I have read some movie reviews, all of which are well written, and I would like to add:

1. Some people say that the protagonist was indifferent and cruel to prawns at the beginning, but I personally think that is not the case. For example, if the armed forces are used to participate in the demolition, it is necessary to know how fast the prawns are, and there are such sturdy weapons, and there are so many people.

2 Some people say that it is cruel for the protagonist to set fire to eggs. Don't you think this scene is familiar? By the way, it is family planning in rural China. The village cadres who are taking care of family planning find so many over-birth households who are expecting to give birth. The feeling of over-fulfilling the task is beyond words. "Blow down and scrape down, you are not allowed to give birth!" Abortion is to pull out a live embryo with a heartbeat, but it is understandable if it is forced to abort the spore (China does implement family planning to control the population, otherwise the earth will definitely explode), Then why can't I understand the protagonist!

3 There is another point in the play that shows that the protagonist has a sense of morality, that is, he was sent to the laboratory after being found to have mutated his left hand, and asked him to shoot an innocent prawn. He said that I would not shoot if I died, and the result was strongly electric shock. For that matter, he still maintains a strong sense of morality and self-principle. I think he is a person with moral character.

4 Someone out of thin air told him that he finally made the prawn go first, and when he was in the back, seeing the scene of the prawn returning home, he felt that his love was overflowing, and he didn't care about personal gains and losses. Personally, I think it's a bit too much. Although he is a little nagging, he is actually a talent, very rational and active. It's not that he didn't want to treat himself first, so when he heard that it would take three years, he knocked out the prawn, jumped to the basement, and told the prawn that his uncle took you home, but found that he couldn't get these things, he found that even if Give him all the materials, he can't cure himself without the prawns, and if the prawns are killed by them, he will not even have the last hope for the three years. But if the prawn does not die, you have to wait three years. Comparing the two, let’s wait for three years. At least there is still a glimmer of hope. After all, three years is not too long. People have waited for 20 years to go home! So he went to rescue the prawn again.

5 There is no way for him to unite with the prawns, human beings: the general public abandoned him, the whites in his original organization wanted to kill him, the blacks in the militants wanted to kill him, and finally a beloved wife was left, but he was this one. He didn't even dare to see her. Humans are insulated from him, and he has to find shrimps.

6 In the end, he didn't care about his own life and death. I think he has rationally seen that he and the prawn will die if he doesn't fight back, so let the prawn run first. If the prawn is alive, he still has a glimmer of hope; if the prawn is dead, he will either be pulled back for vivisection by them, or he will mutate into a prawn forever.

7 Some people have very advanced weapons for so many prawns, and their IQ is not low. Why they just grab cat food like animals do not understand. I think it’s okay too. The first prawn is different from our recipe. What we think is delicious may not be eaten by bugs, and what we don’t like may not be eaten by bugs, so don’t simply use Human standards disagree too much about the dietary preferences of prawns. Second, with the prawn's physical fitness and weapons and equipment, if they fight fiercely, those little black people will definitely not be their opponents, but they are just scraping food in garbage heaps, queuing in front of mobile meat stalls, There is no coercion, and no family robbing, so in fact, their nature is kind, and the national quality is quite high. Otherwise, it would be impossible for those Africans to march and protest and armed riots. In front of the powerful prawns, they should be glad that their lives are still alive.



The rose at the end is really meaningful. Many times we feel that the world is just hell, but if you look at others, the body has become an extremely ugly prawn, abandoned by all human beings in the world, betrayed by relatives, and betrayed by countless people. People chased and killed him, and he died several times, but he still chose to live strong. If he

really wants to leave this world, at least one thing is worth your nostalgia!



Finally, another outstanding contribution of the film is to explore the attitude towards aliens. Due to their curious nature, human beings are indeed full of all kinds of fantasies about aliens, otherwise they would not have sawed other people's spaceships by themselves at the beginning. It's not that people want to land on Earth, it's you who brought them here, and you want to drive them away. If one day we do encounter aliens, what will happen next? Because it is still unrealistic to let most of the earth people leave the earth, so in the case of only one earth, if the aliens are stronger than us, according to the natural law of the jungle, will we become slaves? If we were stronger than aliens, would we enslave aliens? If you're really unsure, don't get in touch.

Maybe God left us alone on this planet to protect us.

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District 9 quotes

  • Wikus Van De Merwe: [Wikus is obviously falling sick] Okay, let's cut some cake!

    [Wikus begins to hallucinate and experience distortion in hearing his own speech, slowing things down considerably]

    Wikus Van De Merwe: C-U-T S-O-M-E C-A-K-E!

  • Fundiswa Mhlanga: [about Wikus Van de Merwe] He was an honest man, and he didn't deserve any of what happened to him.