The Times They Are a-Changin'

District 9 is the best alien movie I have ever seen. I guess mainly because it wasn't really about aliens but was more of a social commentary touching upon issues of racism, violence, class, and the evolution of any given society into something with both good and bad segments.

With evictions, settlements, concentration camps, detention, torture, weapons, illegal trade, medical experiments, violence, being repetitive themes, I couldn't not think of Israel- Palestine, treatment of Muslims today, of Iraq, of the Holocaust, of racism, of so many other incidents of violence, and of how many people die in these conflicts and more, every single day.

It is both, tragic and brilliant, that it took aliens and space ships to create a hard hitting social commentary that brings out effectively what man is doing to man, and as the ending shows, what man will continue to do to man.