Trailer:
What are the layers of context/setting in this film?
Well there is the layer of setting, because the whole movie is set in Johannesburg, which isn't the richest city in the world. As also mentioned in the trailer, one woman says "They're spending so much money on keeping them here, when they could be using it for other things...". This tells us that the context of the story is that the population is unhappy, they don't want this foreign life invading their space. Also mentioned in the trailer, is that the aliens "came here 28 years ago". This tells us that the governement has been putting up with them for a long time, and is possibly getting frustrated with the lack of progress.
How does the filmmaker convey evil or darkness? Is it through the plot, imagery, characters, setting? What expressions of darkness had the most impact on you and why?
District 9 isn't your regular science-fiction film. I mean, sure it has aliens, and battles and such, but the whole sense of it all goes a lot deeper. The fact that the film is shot in a documentary style makes it that much more believable, as well as conveys the theme of darkness quite well. Also, the setting really does the movie well in terms of conveying darkness, due to the shanty town-like setting, it really makes everything so believable. The express of darkness which had the biggest impact on me, were the people. It shows how hypocritical we can all really be, and how we all have this incredible fear of the unknown.
How can a character represent darkness? Who or what is evil in this film? From whose perspective or in what context?
Characters can easily represent darkness by typically being the antagonist, or simply being an evil person. In District 9, it's all based on perspective to who the evil is. At the start of the movie, the main character is trying to evict the aliens from their homes so he is evil to them, but the second half on the movie, he's fighting against MNU, the company he onced served, as so he is evil to them.
What factors contribute to the character's evil actions? What patterns in society or contexts help and/or hinder and/or change his behaviour?
A lot of the movie I found to be karma, which lead to the overall plot of the story. The main character was in a sense, a bad person because of what he was trying to do to all the aliens. But when he became one of them, then he begs for them to help him. A lot of issues that are in society came up, but the biggest two are being hypocritical and having a fear of the unknown.
What are the roots of this person's choices/evil/dark behaviour? What are the choices he/she makes or could have done differently?
Mostly, the darkness came from simply doing the job he was given. I can understand that the majority of the population was fearful of the aliens, considering that they knew little to nothing about them, but that shouldn't have given them the right to evict them of their temporary homes. I think that if our main character had noticed the problems he discovered later in the movie, sooner, then this could have ultimately lead to an uprising of resistance to help protect the aliens from the problems they were about to face.
How does this character/plot/setting symbolize the darkness in all of us? In humanity?
I think the main character easily symbolized the darkness in humanity, due to the fact that he easily demonstrated our great fear for the unknown.
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