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1 January 2010 4:06 PM, PST
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District 9
DVD & Blu-ray, Sony
With a price tag roughly one 10th that of Avatar's, Neill Blomkamp's debut is a film only a director with a love of the science-fiction genre. Like Star Wars or Terminator, it sucks up myriad influences and builds on them rather than simply rehashing. So you get flashes of Robocop, Alien Nation, The Fly, Quatermass, etc, but all given a smart updating and a South African twist; much of D9's style is mockumentary, but even this is twisted to give the plot an ambiguous slant. The film begins several years after a massive spaceship apparently breaks down over Johannesburg. Its inhabitants, disgusting-looking but not malevolent creatures, are segregated from human society in the titular shanty town and cruelly referred to as "prawns". Tasked with moving them out to a new internment camp miles away, is weak-willed corporate drone Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley
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