Last night I was lucky enough to see District 9. As a big Science Fiction fan, I enjoy scifi that doesn’t tread the same old ground, and District 9 certainly lived up to that.<\/p>\n
At times it’s gory, that’s for sure, but at no point does it try to be a thriller or horror. This is a movie with real pathos, with real heart, with a real story<\/em>. Being produced and filmed in South Africa, one could argue that the story is just a thin allegory of apartheid, but it goes so much deeper than that, and confronts the audience with the very simple yet profound question of how we define our own humanity.<\/p>\n It’s rare that I come out of a movie and say that it’s equally the best I’ve seen in quite a long time. Yet to me, it was up there with The Dark Knight<\/em> in terms of quality and story. If you’re looking for a couple of hours well spent in a deep movie that entertains as well as confronts, make sure to buy a couple of tickets, take a friend along with you, and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I was lucky enough to see District 9. As a big Science Fiction fan, I enjoy scifi that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[336,607],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-district-9","tag-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}