9th District

[potted_music]

I've been mildly hopeful about this movie, as the MNU site is sheer brilliance; I feared that it might turn out to be a very anvilicious message movie (judging by the "humans only" promotional posters, of course), but the result is, IMHO, worse - just a pile of forgettable rubbish.

The idea of casting a neurotic functionary as a protag was brilliant, as were some of the documentary-style sequences at the beginning. The problem is, the director hardly bothered to stitch them to the generic SF plot, creating some of the most striking discrepancies in style & plotting I've ever seen onscreen.

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Aren't movie trailers supposed to be mellow? The trailer for "39 Case" made me shriek and duck in horror. I don't have the stomach for horror movies, and would have been a happier viewer without being subjected to the creepiness at waaay too early in the morning :( Renée Zellweger is pretty though.

Comments

[taelle]

I think 9th District is supposed to be very much about 'real people' as opposed to 'Hollywood constructs'. Frankly speaking, this makes me suspicious.

[potted_music]

Most people who liked it praised it for its courage in portaining all the humanity's darker sides. For all my cynicism, I don't think that "humans are cruel" is such a new idea as to hold the movie on its own :-/