Neill Blomkamp Essays

by the director. Throughout the film ‘District 9’, the key idea of dehumanising is expressed through committing acts that would otherwise horrify humans. Neill Blomkamp, the director of ‘District 9’ explores the ways humans often dehumanising others through the use of prawns searching for refuge acting as creatures from a foreign land. Blomkamp creates the film where prawns and humans are divided along racial lines, leaving prawns to be looked upon as unhuman like aliens. Prawns undergo horrific

stranded on Earth. Immediately becoming a burden on society, the “Prawns” are dumped into the slums of District 9, where their welfare is no longer a priority of MNU. Through the manipulation of filmic codes like structure, and camera angles and shot, Blomkamp constructs an evolving representation of the aliens as a social group, initially as an unintelligent and aggressive social burden, however, by the end of the film they are perceived as the complete opposite. At the beginning of the film, a representation

Abstract Amy Chua introduced the concept of “Tiger mom” in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Chua, 2011). She described the hyper-parenting style she used with her daughters, analyzing it and comparing it to the Western parenting styles. Many studies have been conducted to determine which type of parenting is the best for their children best academic success, extracurricular activities performance, and social interaction among themselves and with adults. A clear and definite answer has

physical, mental and social settings to law enforcement. Within the movie you can see direct connections between how the white people treat the aliens (prawns) and how white people treat black people in South Africa. The director of District 9 Neill Blomkamp grew up in the time of apartheid, he had first hand experience with apartheid and used the movie to channel his experience to shed light on the topic. “It was completely barbaric what happened and that was the same day we started rolling cameras

invaluable tool utilised to convey meaningful and insightful messages that often reflect upon intercultural issues prevalent in modern society. This essay presents an analysis of two key concepts of intercultural communication that are highly applicable to Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi film District 9. The two concepts that will be analysed and subsequently applied are ethnocentrism and acculturation.

"Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way" (Neill Blomkamp). Satire is the use of irony, humor, or exaggeration by writers and is used to demonstrate the absurdity and corruption of an individual or society. Mark Twain notably uses satire to express his criticisms of American society in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses humor and

often used to make comedy out of serious topics and make them easier to read. Twain used the same approach in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satire is used by authors in order to believe a point that they are making about a certain topic. Neill Blomkamp stated, “Satire allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.” This quote explains how satire is supposed to be found

Film-theory is in some aspects a very fickle research field. It concerns itself with a relatively new technology and as an academic field it does not exactly stand on its own. Like literature, academic research in film has to be a combination of various other research fields to give appropriate answers to the issues and questions of film studies. In a way, experts within film studies have to develop theory from a variety of other fields, such as psychology, sociology, economics or statistics to name