your racism, let me show you it

So, District 9 - voted Film Most Likely To Resist Coherent Review For Anything Up To Weeks. I've found it extremely difficult to formulate a response to this movie, not only because of its own political and narrative qualities, but because there's such a buzz about it. Everyone seems to have seen it; everyone has some sort of reaction, either positive or negative, but always involved. Are we so starved, as science fiction fans, of genuine South African texts in our preferred idiom? I suppose we are. I don't think, though, that that should be permitted to detract from the film's achievements, which are many, powerful and frequently sly. ( This appears to be an essay rather than a post. Dagnabbit. )

Things We Have Learned Today: the penalty of brooding about a movie for two weeks is, apparently, unashamed verbosity, not to mention unrestrained polysyllabic outbreaks. Sorry. Also, the universe really doesn't want me to talk about this film, I've had no web access for most of the day, yay Cherished Institution and apparently insoluble DNS problems. On the upside, strawberryfrog can now stop leaving reproachful handfuls of tiny etched frimpt shells in the comments.