Neill Blomkamp Essays

by the director. Throughout the film ‘District 9’, the key idea of dehumanising is expressed through committing acts that would otherwise horrify humans. Neill Blomkamp, the director of ‘District 9’ explores the ways humans often dehumanising others through the use of prawns searching for refuge acting as creatures from a foreign land. Blomkamp creates the film where prawns and humans are divided along racial lines, leaving prawns to be looked upon as unhuman like aliens. Prawns undergo horrific

you like it if you were not allowed to work for your family? How would you like it if you were segregated from the rest of society? Because you were different. These are the main values and attitudes depicted in the film District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp is a science fiction thriller film, released in 2009. The film has been constructed to convey particular perspectives on the representations of moral and ethical issues, towards those who are marginalised/different. The viewer is exposed to many

stranded on Earth. Immediately becoming a burden on society, the “Prawns” are dumped into the slums of District 9, where their welfare is no longer a priority of MNU. Through the manipulation of filmic codes like structure, and camera angles and shot, Blomkamp constructs an evolving representation of the aliens as a social group, initially as an unintelligent and aggressive social burden, however, by the end of the film they are perceived as the complete opposite. At the beginning of the film, a representation

District 9 is about an exploration of identity if Aliens were to come to Earth one day and be forced to settle on the planet, the film mirrors Apartheid which took place in South Africa, even so far as to taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa. After aliens, the common slur being Prawns, live on Earth for 20 years, an organization called Multinational United (MNU) has begun a relocation from their current slum to an effectual internment camp. Wikus van de Merwe is an employee of MNU who is promoted

Abstract Amy Chua introduced the concept of “Tiger mom” in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Chua, 2011). She described the hyper-parenting style she used with her daughters, analyzing it and comparing it to the Western parenting styles. Many studies have been conducted to determine which type of parenting is the best for their children best academic success, extracurricular activities performance, and social interaction among themselves and with adults. A clear and definite answer has

physical, mental and social settings to law enforcement. Within the movie you can see direct connections between how the white people treat the aliens (prawns) and how white people treat black people in South Africa. The director of District 9 Neill Blomkamp grew up in the time of apartheid, he had first hand experience with apartheid and used the movie to channel his experience to shed light on the topic. “It was completely barbaric what happened and that was the same day we started rolling cameras

invaluable tool utilised to convey meaningful and insightful messages that often reflect upon intercultural issues prevalent in modern society. This essay presents an analysis of two key concepts of intercultural communication that are highly applicable to Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi film District 9. The two concepts that will be analysed and subsequently applied are ethnocentrism and acculturation.

"Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way" (Neill Blomkamp). Satire is the use of irony, humor, or exaggeration by writers and is used to demonstrate the absurdity and corruption of an individual or society. Mark Twain notably uses satire to express his criticisms of American society in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses humor and

said, “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery” (Andrew 99). Humanity should learn how history repeats itself as the past often has ironic relevances to the present and future. Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and the director, Neill Blomkamp’s film Elysium both posit stories for the human race in the future of the oppressed, authoritarian societies, where the privilege enjoy a life of luxury and harmony while controlling and dehumanizing the much larger lower class. It is comparable

often used to make comedy out of serious topics and make them easier to read. Twain used the same approach in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satire is used by authors in order to believe a point that they are making about a certain topic. Neill Blomkamp stated, “Satire allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.” This quote explains how satire is supposed to be found

who woke up in his bed one day to find that his body was transformed into a huge insect, a cockroach. Gregor battled himself trying to accept his new body and also tried handling with his hideous and selfish family. The movie “District 9” by Neill Blomkamp is about aliens who arrived on earth in South Africa. The aliens did not go to Earth to be destructive, gain control or conquer the planet, but, to find refuge from their home planet. The government separated the species, human/aliens. District

Film-theory is in some aspects a very fickle research field. It concerns itself with a relatively new technology and as an academic field it does not exactly stand on its own. Like literature, academic research in film has to be a combination of various other research fields to give appropriate answers to the issues and questions of film studies. In a way, experts within film studies have to develop theory from a variety of other fields, such as psychology, sociology, economics or statistics to name