{"id":3435,"date":"2009-08-15T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-08-15T22:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T05:48:40","slug":"the-thinking-mans-alien-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-thinking-mans-alien-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The thinking man&#8217;s alien movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"853\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZSgLOvH_MMk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Likely the most original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-9.com\/\">film<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen all year; tremendously rich premise and insightful commentary. Still the requisite blood and guts for an alien\/monster summer flick, but I could have watched 2 hours of just the social commentary, presented in a mix of faux news footage and documentary-style camera shots. And like the best speculative fiction, it leads you to reflect on our real world relationships and actions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-9.com\/\">The film&#8217;s website is similarly innovative<\/a>, presented as an artifact of the situation, with more man-on-the-street interviews.<\/p>\n<p>If you can handle the monsters and gross special effects, this one is highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Oh wow, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZ1vHRs_EOs\">the original short<\/a> District 9 was based on, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2009\/08\/xenophobia-racism-drive-alien-relocation-in-district-9\/\">actually asked people about<\/a> the Zimbabwean immigrant problems South Africa was experiencing. Art imitating life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely the most original film I&#8217;ve seen all year; tremendously rich premise and insightful commentary. Still the requisite blood and guts for an alien\/monster summer flick, but I could have watched 2 hours of just the social commentary, presented in a mix of faux news footage and documentary-style camera shots. And like the best speculative&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-thinking-mans-alien-movie\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-design","category-films"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-Tp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}