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For people who think it's boring, well it's a realistic depiction of war, it's adapted from a book that a soldier swofford actually wrote, but to me it wasn't boring, sure it was slow but not boring. The characters were interesting, the acting convincing, Jake and his supporting actors did a real good job, the cinematography was topnotch in the second half

Neill Blomkamp's debut film with a budget of 3crore USD and returns of 21crore USD, Starts in a documentary style with the field agent Wikus, explaining his role, who is assigned to deal with the aliens who have settled in a major South african city for over 20 years with a large space ship hovering above with no place to go. The place below comes to be district 9, a slum with the aliens and illegal Nigerians dealing with weapons. The director has a documentary style of taking, hand held shots which bring out more of the realism to the sci-fi. The aliens look believable, 20 years have passed, so we can assume they're good enough to communicate well with humans, which makes you draw comparisons with the immigrant situations. The whole slum, the space ship, alien tech never seem out of place. Though the film seems to be many films at once, it stands original all together. The conflict between human life and alien life, one life and many lives, the right and the wrong is for one to judge. Wikus ends up taking lives of many soldiers in the process to get back to his normal self. The soldiers are shown blood thirsty, that following orders is all they know. The higher ups are well off in this whole affair, it's the middle men that have lost their lives. So, it does provide a lot of social commentary in the name of aliens. At last it ends in the same documentary style it opened with, showing Wikus's wife with a metal rose she found reminiscing of her husband and an end shot of an alien with a metal rose, which probably is wikus transformed completely. All in all it keeps you entertained though not too emotionally invested.

It started out great, the characters introduced were going nice till midway. But the way the obstacles thrown at them kept being resolved the very next minute wasn't well shown, there wasn't much struggle, the last 4 episodes started to be more emotional and dramatic. I honestly skipped the last two episodes, would u believe it! Because I knew there was nothing more to it, just read the synopsis on the internet for the last episode, it was just predictable but it didn't seem to convey the emotions though the characters felt them because they were rushed emotions, I cringed at every smirk of the overly smart manager, I didn't like the character honestly nor the actor Kim da mi, no offense to her but her expressions all the way through were just annoying, I closed my eyes everytime she tried to pull that smirk, any other female lead like the one from backstreet rookie would've been a better choice. Finally itaewon class last 5 episodes were a disappointment though Id like to say again that I haven't even watched the last 2 episodes