I finally watched a movie I’ve been meaning to watch for a while. District 9 is strange movie – I would describe as a fairly transparent allegory for much of what ails modern (post modern), multicultural societies, most notably its setting, South Africa, but much of what it has to say works for the US just as well. The twist is that you have to imagine the allegory as written by, say, William S Burroughs. I kept thinking of Cities of the Red Night, as I watched it, for some reason. Anyway, I recommend it. I find it neither as “obvious” nor as flawed (in its disorganizatoin) as has been implied by some critics, maybe.
