Isn't some of the intro footage literally non-fiction - people talking about apartheid policies? Just with enough context removed so that it also applies to the aliens.
But seriously what are you trying to accomplish. My deleted comment was just the word yes. I deleted it because I was probably incorrect. Then you come and just lie about it lol.
I didn't defend Zuma back then, to be clear I don't like him and he deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail. I was just explaining why people still remain so loyal to him despite his horrible corruption and AIDS denialism.
Also my deleted comment was just the word "yes", I deleted it because I haven't watched the movie in a while and I'm probably incorrect
Also the username "magnificent Donald J Trump" lmaooo. Couldn't be more obvious. I'm sorry for all our comrades that have their pronouns abused like this. Report and move on I guess
Didn't the director and/or writers come out and say that it was actually about more recent mistreatment of refugees in South Africa rather than being an allegory for the apartheid system? Like the movie is explicitly about racism and systemic abuses, just not the ones everyone jumps to when they think about South Africa?
It's about both the xenophobia that peeked in the late 2000s, and rears its head from time to time, and apartheid really. The name "district 9" comes from the very real district 6 that existed in Cape Town during apartheid.
The movie was filmed in areas of South Africa that had experienced xenophobic attacks, and where people were forcefully being relocated from shacks and informal structures to RDP government housing. (Alexandra and Soweto to be exact). These areas currently look like a warzone with army patroling in armoured vehicles and burnt down shops due to the civil unrest spiked by the arrest of corrupt ex president Jacob Zuma.
Also the dystopian looking concrete tower (Ponte Tower) has been renovated and cleaned now. It's not a terrible place to live anymore filled with the worst kinds of criminal gangs like it was in the past. It's actually pretty alright now.
Thanks for elaborating, I couldn't remember any more than the bit about refugees.
Also the dystopian looking concrete tower (Ponte Tower) has been renovated and cleaned now
Is that the infamous one that provided the sort of open center and mixed residential-commercial design that gets mimicked a lot as an arcology/hab-block in cyberpunk stories? If so I remember reading about that, how bad it had gotten and what went into fixing it up and renovating it.
Yeah it's that one. It got pretty bad. There was a large trash pile in the middle a few stories high. Sex trafficking, drugs, criminal gangs, etc occupied most of the building during the early to mid 2000s. If you wanted to solicit a prostitute or get hard drugs like cocaine, tik, heroin, etc that was the place to go. But then the tower fell under new ownership and the criminal and gang activity was kicked out after a few years of legal battles, police corruption, raids etc, and the building cleaned up. The new ownership invested a ton of money into the building. After years of work it's as good as a dystopian looking apartment complex in the middle of Johannesburg can get. Now a local radio presenter even owns an apartment there.
I mean, honestly that makes more sense. Apartheid was a 2 tiered system, but the lower racial caste were a source of labor for a white supremacist society, not just a problem to be exterminated.
The whole point is that it represents both. The name of the movie being based on an actual district which evicted everyone to create a whites only neighborhood during apartheid (district 6) and the film being filmed at locations that recently experienced xenophobic violence and forced evictions at the time is no coincidence. The whole point is that you can replace "prawn" in the dialogue with that of any oppressed peoples, to understand what is going on.
movie is literally about apartheid
South Africa is a very apolitical nation.
D9 was just a spiritual sequel to Falling Down, just a guy being cool 😎
Why can't they do apolitical movies like They Live anymore. Just a good movie about a dude killing aliens, smdh
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Isn't some of the intro footage literally non-fiction - people talking about apartheid policies? Just with enough context removed so that it also applies to the aliens.
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Don't worry I screenshotted it for all to see
Lol. But really don't know wtf they're on about, suspecting a wrecker of some sort
check out that name
Lol. The magnificent Donald J Trump. Lmaooo
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But seriously what are you trying to accomplish. My deleted comment was just the word yes. I deleted it because I was probably incorrect. Then you come and just lie about it lol.
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Most obvious wrecker behaviour, the deleted comment said "look at the name". Nothing to do with what you typed.
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I didn't defend Zuma back then, to be clear I don't like him and he deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail. I was just explaining why people still remain so loyal to him despite his horrible corruption and AIDS denialism.
Also my deleted comment was just the word "yes", I deleted it because I haven't watched the movie in a while and I'm probably incorrect
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It's a new account stirring drama and misreading comments from the past to try something. My deleted comment above was just the word "yes" lmao
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Also the username "magnificent Donald J Trump" lmaooo. Couldn't be more obvious. I'm sorry for all our comrades that have their pronouns abused like this. Report and move on I guess
To be fair I got that it was about something, but not about what when I first saw it. Then I saw it again and it hit really fucking hard.
Didn't the director and/or writers come out and say that it was actually about more recent mistreatment of refugees in South Africa rather than being an allegory for the apartheid system? Like the movie is explicitly about racism and systemic abuses, just not the ones everyone jumps to when they think about South Africa?
It's about both the xenophobia that peeked in the late 2000s, and rears its head from time to time, and apartheid really. The name "district 9" comes from the very real district 6 that existed in Cape Town during apartheid.
The movie was filmed in areas of South Africa that had experienced xenophobic attacks, and where people were forcefully being relocated from shacks and informal structures to RDP government housing. (Alexandra and Soweto to be exact). These areas currently look like a warzone with army patroling in armoured vehicles and burnt down shops due to the civil unrest spiked by the arrest of corrupt ex president Jacob Zuma.
Also the dystopian looking concrete tower (Ponte Tower) has been renovated and cleaned now. It's not a terrible place to live anymore filled with the worst kinds of criminal gangs like it was in the past. It's actually pretty alright now.
Thanks for elaborating, I couldn't remember any more than the bit about refugees.
Is that the infamous one that provided the sort of open center and mixed residential-commercial design that gets mimicked a lot as an arcology/hab-block in cyberpunk stories? If so I remember reading about that, how bad it had gotten and what went into fixing it up and renovating it.
CW: Criminal activity, drugs, sexual violence
Yeah it's that one. It got pretty bad. There was a large trash pile in the middle a few stories high. Sex trafficking, drugs, criminal gangs, etc occupied most of the building during the early to mid 2000s. If you wanted to solicit a prostitute or get hard drugs like cocaine, tik, heroin, etc that was the place to go. But then the tower fell under new ownership and the criminal and gang activity was kicked out after a few years of legal battles, police corruption, raids etc, and the building cleaned up. The new ownership invested a ton of money into the building. After years of work it's as good as a dystopian looking apartment complex in the middle of Johannesburg can get. Now a local radio presenter even owns an apartment there.
I mean, honestly that makes more sense. Apartheid was a 2 tiered system, but the lower racial caste were a source of labor for a white supremacist society, not just a problem to be exterminated.
The whole point is that it represents both. The name of the movie being based on an actual district which evicted everyone to create a whites only neighborhood during apartheid (district 6) and the film being filmed at locations that recently experienced xenophobic violence and forced evictions at the time is no coincidence. The whole point is that you can replace "prawn" in the dialogue with that of any oppressed peoples, to understand what is going on.