![]() ![]() ![]() In a symbolic nod to apartheid, the ship lands above Johannesburg. District 9 involves a large ship full of extraterrestrials (referred to in the film as non-humans) who seek refuge on Earth. In doing so, I will give away much of the plot (so please be warned), but I also offer some suggestions for how to proceed with future viewings of the film. In this review, I explain these themes and their significance. Furthermore, the film offers ambiguity about which civilization we should be rooting for and even about where one civilization ends and the other begins – where do we draw the line? This ambiguity – and the audience reaction it generates – is of much interest to transhumanism. Whenever violence breaks out, it is limited to localized police operations, insurgencies, and crimes, not focused efforts at extermination. While it develops the theme of tensions between the two civilizations, it is anything but a standard-issue war of the worlds. The film depicts an encounter between humanity and extraterrestrials. Consideration of these issues deepens the viewing experience, and it can inform current decisions about transhumanism's future as a cultural movement. These issues include whether it is permissible to give a human being superhuman powers against his will, under what circumstances humans will be accepting of transhumans or posthumans, and what roles space colonization and extraterrestrial encounter may play in the future of humanity. Neill Blomkamp, 2009) raises several issues of significance to transhumanism. ![]()
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