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Critical Response Paper. District 9 Retells Social Segregation
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Essay style papers, covering at least one film and two assigned readings for the week. The responses should be thoughtful, and critically address and interrogate an issue raised by the screening and the readings. Sources should be cited correctly.
I put the film link down below. you only need to choose one of them.
1). Opening District 9
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=lEcZD_Rs4Ho
2). Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=_vEnUAWjmNE
3). Children of Men -- Immigration scenes
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=161h1o168xU
4). Cultural History of Blackface Minstrelsy
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=pqlD-eZm1ck
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District 9 Retells Social Segregation
Introduction
The 2009 sci-fi film District 9 portrays a world where cultured humans and barbaric aliens meet and cohabit (Blomkamp). The film develops the stranded malnourished aliens, referred to as Prawns, and how they ended living on earth. Sci-fi and aliens have been themes of many films for so long. We have always been curious about what aliens and our encounter would be like in reality. District 9 is among the many films that tackle the possible circumstances that may occur if ever aliens contact us. However, more than the aliens' narrative coming to and invading the earth, District 9 has another discussion to offer. The film shows the contrast between beings that are cultured and not. This discussion will lean on the film's connection to the historical narrative of segregating people who were deemed savage and barbarian (Tatsumi).
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The aliens, called Prawns, have their flying vehicle suspended over the town of Johannesburg. As a solution, the town government rescued the aliens despite the danger. It leads the aliens to cohabit with humans in a camp called District 9. District 9 becomes home to thousands of stranded Prawns on earth. However, because the Prawns do not live the way humans do, they become concerned and bothersome to the townspeople. The Prawns would show unethical behaviors as survival actions and invade spaces that prohibit them (Blomkamp).
In history, racial segregation once discriminatively separated a group of people from the others (Tatsumi). The African Americans were the people who were targeted by the segregation. They have designated schools, communities, and spaces not to get mixed with the white Americans (Rugh and Douglas). This history is somehow parallel to the narrative of District 9. The aliens are also securely separated from the humans that even spaces are marked for humans only. The film gives us a plausible reason for the segregation: they are aliens, we are humans. It is the reality of the film that the people have to deal with. However, in the historical narrative, racial segregation separated people from people. This parallelism in the film and history makes us wonder why segregation would happen in the past if there were no aliens.
Another parallelism of the film and history is how the people raise concern and rage to the segregation. In the film, people are outraged by the invasion of the Prawns. They bring to the streets their battle with the Prawns because they are robbed of social spaces and things. People are in chaotic protests against aliens that occupy spaces that are not meant for them. In the past, whit...
[Professor]
[Course]
[Date]
District 9 Retells Social Segregation
Introduction
The 2009 sci-fi film District 9 portrays a world where cultured humans and barbaric aliens meet and cohabit (Blomkamp). The film develops the stranded malnourished aliens, referred to as Prawns, and how they ended living on earth. Sci-fi and aliens have been themes of many films for so long. We have always been curious about what aliens and our encounter would be like in reality. District 9 is among the many films that tackle the possible circumstances that may occur if ever aliens contact us. However, more than the aliens' narrative coming to and invading the earth, District 9 has another discussion to offer. The film shows the contrast between beings that are cultured and not. This discussion will lean on the film's connection to the historical narrative of segregating people who were deemed savage and barbarian (Tatsumi).
Body
The aliens, called Prawns, have their flying vehicle suspended over the town of Johannesburg. As a solution, the town government rescued the aliens despite the danger. It leads the aliens to cohabit with humans in a camp called District 9. District 9 becomes home to thousands of stranded Prawns on earth. However, because the Prawns do not live the way humans do, they become concerned and bothersome to the townspeople. The Prawns would show unethical behaviors as survival actions and invade spaces that prohibit them (Blomkamp).
In history, racial segregation once discriminatively separated a group of people from the others (Tatsumi). The African Americans were the people who were targeted by the segregation. They have designated schools, communities, and spaces not to get mixed with the white Americans (Rugh and Douglas). This history is somehow parallel to the narrative of District 9. The aliens are also securely separated from the humans that even spaces are marked for humans only. The film gives us a plausible reason for the segregation: they are aliens, we are humans. It is the reality of the film that the people have to deal with. However, in the historical narrative, racial segregation separated people from people. This parallelism in the film and history makes us wonder why segregation would happen in the past if there were no aliens.
Another parallelism of the film and history is how the people raise concern and rage to the segregation. In the film, people are outraged by the invasion of the Prawns. They bring to the streets their battle with the Prawns because they are robbed of social spaces and things. People are in chaotic protests against aliens that occupy spaces that are not meant for them. In the past, whit...
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