This is a trailer for a movie called District 9 and it looks great, you guys.
Whoa. That is nuts looking. Apparently District 9 has had an on-going viral marketing campaign for awhile. Who knew? (You can't fire me because you cannot fire someone who has already quit.) The official website is pretty well put together and a good time waster if you have some time that needs wasting.
Aliens have historically been the film world's stand-in for the philosophical "Other," and by philosophical "Other," I of course mean blacks and Hispanics. This is what you learn in a freshman survey course on cultural anthropology. That's right, I'VE BEEN TO COLLEGE! Jealous? So setting the whole thing in South Africa is pretty clever and/or bold. Neil LaBute is so jealous right now. "Aw, no fair! I should have set Lakeview Terrace in South Africa. And made Samuel L. Jackson a sociopathic alien. Boo hoo hoo, I hate women." Alan Ball is so jealous right now. "Aw, no fair! I should have set True Blood in South Africa. And made the gay-metaphor vampires be race-metaphor aliens. And made it not one of the worst shows on television. Boo hoo hoo, I'm sorry about American Beauty."
Seriously, though, let's see this, you guys. Right? Right.
