Director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 is set for release on August 14th. I think it’s likely to be a surprise hit.
The South African director’s science fiction film recounts the arrival and confinement, to the title’s residential district in Johannesburg, of a group of peaceful extraterrestrials who land nearby. They languish in District 9 for years, useful only for their skillls, talents from which humanity hopes to learn and profit.
The film is about fictional extraterrestrials, who arrived on Earth by accident, intending no harm, yet are confined in a South African ghetto, scorned by humans, of whatever ancestry.
There’s nothing about this movie that should, by any connection, remind anyone of Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Yet, if even for a moment, anything about this description made anyone in Whitewater uncomfortable, about our small city, then I would suggest that they look to themselves.