Seen District 9 yet?

[Derek]

Here's a letter in 7 Days newspaper:

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">Alien movie is an insult to Nigerians</span>

Tuesday 22 Sep, 2009

If you have watched the Hollywood release District 9, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth, a sickening feeling, and a mind boggling nauseating conclusion.

Whoever directed this fiction movie depicting Nigerians as eating alien flesh, needs to have an overhaul of his little chamber upstairs (if he indeed has a brain).

This movie hurts, it really uncovers healing wounds, exposing still how some uncivilised goons, primitive, uncouth and barbaric in their thinking, regard the black people.

This movie is an abuse to humanity and should be condemned in the toughest ways possible and it’s my plea to all God-fearing people to avoid watching such grotesque, biased abusive and retrogressive film.

How on earth did He/she choose to shoot this abuse on African soil remains a stabbing question in my mind and whatever drove him to such obscene actions, remains a mystery.

Africans we have enough issues and no one is justified in stooping to show us this low.</span>

[Blackstar*]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

I haven't seen the film, and probably won't. It sounds like a load of rubbish: the &quot;plot&quot;.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">The Nigerian government was deeply offended by the film. Information Minister Dora Akunyili asked movie theatres around the country to either ban the film or edit out specific references of the country, because of the film's negative depiction of the Nigerian characters as criminals and cannibals. Letters of complaint have been sent to the producer and distributor of the film demanding an apology and a response is currently awaited. She also said the gang leader Obesandjo is almost identical in spelling and pronounciation to the surname of former president Olusegun Obasanjo.</span></div></div>
IMO, many African leaders are indeed &quot;cannibals&quot; who make m(b)illions of dollars by sucking the life out of their countries and compatriots.

[mountaingal]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

i liked the movie. yes, i could have seen that the nigerians would be upset at how they were portrayed. at the same time, their role in the movie as black marketeers par excellence made me admire the nigerian characters to some extent. after all, nigerians, generally speaking, take anansi-hood to a high standard. it's not a position of victimhood.

[Derek]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the &quot;plot&quot;.
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Seems like a load of foolishness, but I'll watch it some time this week out of interest.

[Blackstar*]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">i liked the movie. yes, i could have seen that the nigerians would be upset at how they were portrayed. at the same time, their role in the movie as black marketeers par excellence made me admire the nigerian characters to some extent. after all, nigerians, generally speaking, take anansi-hood to a high standard. it's not a position of victimhood.</span> </div></div>True, Nigerians have a great sense of business. If their successive <span style="text-decoration: line-through">crime lords</span> leaders weren't so corrupt, Nigeria would be a prosperous country.

[jah_yout]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

i tried to watch it on a bootleg but the non-english parts had dutch sub-titles....
i will try to watch it on something legit but they were not gonna get my money...

i was totally offended by the basic premise of the movie...

but many people will allow movies to be filmed on their soil no matter how degrading &amp; demeaning to their people;

after all wasn't some of 'marked for death' filmed in jamaica?

[Suesumba]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
but many people will allow movies to be filmed on their soil no matter how degrading &amp; demeaning to their people;
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i was thinking the same thing. i'll see if my little man has the bootleg.

[neutral]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Whoever directed this fiction movie depicting Nigerians as eating alien flesh, needs to have an overhaul of his little chamber upstairs (if he indeed has a brain).


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Someone needs to get a life,it`s a bloody movie for petes sake,being depicted as eating alien flesh comes way down the line in comparison to killing your kids and driving them out the village because they are &quot;possessed by demons&quot;.

[neutral]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
IMO, many African leaders are indeed &quot;cannibals&quot; who make m(b)illions of dollars by sucking the life out of their countries and compatriots. </div></div>

I am glad you said it and not I,..otherwise the blakk one would be all over my post like a bad rash.

[mountaingal]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

the movie is a lot more nuanced than can be revealed here without giving it away. suffice to say the nigerians didn't want to engage in cannibalism as shown in the movie simply caw dem did hungry. the apartheid allegory is also strong enough to remind us of how evil that system was. both those points are worth discussing, but it would be a more meaningful discussion, imo, if people actually saw the movie first.

[slimsexy]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's a letter in 7 Days newspaper:

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">Alien movie is an insult to Nigerians</span>

Tuesday 22 Sep, 2009

If you have watched the Hollywood release District 9, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth, a sickening feeling, and a mind boggling nauseating conclusion.

Whoever directed this fiction movie depicting Nigerians as eating alien flesh, needs to have an overhaul of his little chamber upstairs (if he indeed has a brain).

This movie hurts, it really uncovers healing wounds, exposing still how some uncivilised goons, primitive, uncouth and barbaric in their thinking, regard the black people.

This movie is an abuse to humanity and should be condemned in the toughest ways possible and it’s my plea to all God-fearing people to avoid watching such grotesque, biased abusive and retrogressive film.

How on earth did He/she choose to shoot this abuse on African soil remains a stabbing question in my mind and whatever drove him to such obscene actions, remains a mystery.

Africans we have enough issues and no one is justified in stooping to show us this low.</span>

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Do you always take everything so personal?

[Yuriatin]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

Boy oh boy oonu late bah bah.

http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&amp;Number=1025467&amp;page=1

[Derek]

Re: Seen District 9 yet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: slimsexy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's a letter in 7 Days newspaper:

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">Alien movie is an insult to Nigerians</span>

Tuesday 22 Sep, 2009

If you have watched the Hollywood release District 9, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth, a sickening feeling, and a mind boggling nauseating conclusion.

Whoever directed this fiction movie depicting Nigerians as eating alien flesh, needs to have an overhaul of his little chamber upstairs (if he indeed has a brain).

This movie hurts, it really uncovers healing wounds, exposing still how some uncivilised goons, primitive, uncouth and barbaric in their thinking, regard the black people.

This movie is an abuse to humanity and should be condemned in the toughest ways possible and it’s my plea to all God-fearing people to avoid watching such grotesque, biased abusive and retrogressive film.

How on earth did He/she choose to shoot this abuse on African soil remains a stabbing question in my mind and whatever drove him to such obscene actions, remains a mystery.

Africans we have enough issues and no one is justified in stooping to show us this low.</span>

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Do you always take everything so personal? </div></div>


I didn't write that. If you read the thread carefully, you will notice I stated I haven't seen the film yet.
And I'm not Nigerian enough to take the movie <span style="font-style: italic">personally.</span>