LINK: ALIVE IN JOBURG
This was the question that kept coming to my mind as I watched this amazing viral video for the upcoming movie District 9. Placing it 1990 South Africa makes the premise of the movie all the more troubling and conflicted. What struck me most was the various layers of power between everyone here, from the lowly alien begging for water, the bio suit alien that could crush someone like an insect, the giant ships, to the race and class differences right at the height of Apartheid. I love the comment someone made on Vimeo, "I love that the aliens just become a social problem, not an apocalyptic threat."
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