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[dreamer_easy]

Finally caught up with District 9. In many ways a very straightforward SF/action story, but told with such verité and intensity that I had to ask Jon to hold my hand. (I recall there were questions raised about the racial politics of the movie - if it was me, I'd've left the witchdoctory stuff out, tho OTOH it provides a disturbing parallel for what the geneticists are up to.)

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The witchdoctor/cannibal stuff jumped out at me at once, as it's such an intergral part of the Western caricature of "Africa". But I figured there must be context I was missing - why Nigerians, in particular? - and yeah, there was. What a shame that a movie that's otherwise so complex and thought-provoking should fall back on the local "criminal immigrant" stereotype.