District 9 Themes
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District 9 Themes Reflection
By: Umer Shahid
District 9 is a science fiction movie with strong messages. Intelligently directed by Neill Blomkamp, the movie utilizes different themes and a strong plot to project many different messages. First and foremost, the movie exhibits the theme of cruelty hand in hand with racism. The movie sends the message indirectly by the usage of aliens instead of a human race. This theme can be related to the views of “aliens” in our society. These people can be people of different ethnic, religious or political views in comparison to the majority population. Another theme present in the movie is the mistrust of authority. M.N.U are the superior power in the movie that are advertising themselves as a positive connection between the two species, yet their unknown acts of cruelty really shows the director’s views on mistrust of power. Through the usage of different themes relating to dystopian ideals, the director sends a strong message through the movie District 9.
It is clearly seen that the race with more power and wealth tries to take advantage of the weaker race for their own benefits. As seen during the scenes when the M.N.U. is trying to evict the aliens from district 9, the superior power uses many immoral ways to prevail. They utilize force, violence, one way communication (can’t understand what the aliens are saying) and most of all, heartless thinking to force their choices onto the aliens. With the majority of the local population being humans and supporting their cause, the M.N.U. can do whatever they like to get their objective done. They feel and exhibit that freedom during the entire movie, and no human is protesting against them so they have no regrets. This relates to the real world in many ways. Being pushed by a majority population and a seemingly moral objective, we have seen many problems in the world, such as the war in Iraq. The director really tries to show an in depth look on the cruelty of fueled,...
By: Umer Shahid
District 9 is a science fiction movie with strong messages. Intelligently directed by Neill Blomkamp, the movie utilizes different themes and a strong plot to project many different messages. First and foremost, the movie exhibits the theme of cruelty hand in hand with racism. The movie sends the message indirectly by the usage of aliens instead of a human race. This theme can be related to the views of “aliens” in our society. These people can be people of different ethnic, religious or political views in comparison to the majority population. Another theme present in the movie is the mistrust of authority. M.N.U are the superior power in the movie that are advertising themselves as a positive connection between the two species, yet their unknown acts of cruelty really shows the director’s views on mistrust of power. Through the usage of different themes relating to dystopian ideals, the director sends a strong message through the movie District 9.
It is clearly seen that the race with more power and wealth tries to take advantage of the weaker race for their own benefits. As seen during the scenes when the M.N.U. is trying to evict the aliens from district 9, the superior power uses many immoral ways to prevail. They utilize force, violence, one way communication (can’t understand what the aliens are saying) and most of all, heartless thinking to force their choices onto the aliens. With the majority of the local population being humans and supporting their cause, the M.N.U. can do whatever they like to get their objective done. They feel and exhibit that freedom during the entire movie, and no human is protesting against them so they have no regrets. This relates to the real world in many ways. Being pushed by a majority population and a seemingly moral objective, we have seen many problems in the world, such as the war in Iraq. The director really tries to show an in depth look on the cruelty of fueled,...