At the Movies
Michael Wood: ‘District 9’, 8 October 2009
“... you’re recognising everyone’s rights when you’re not. The film is District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by the director and Terri Tatchell, and of course the South African resonances are everywhere, sparked by the setting if nothing else. But the question of the aliens, insofar as it has any allegorical reach at all, as distinct from ... ”