{"id":293,"date":"2009-08-17T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T10:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-08-17T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T10:58:36","slug":"district-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I saw District 9<\/em> by Neill Blomkamp yesterday, and I still can’t get the last frame out of my head.\u00c2\u00a0 That such an image could matter to me, that I would care at all, much less have it haunt me, is a testament to what science fiction can do.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s tons of pointless techno second guessing surrounding this film in the reviews I’ve read\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhow does the pooba work huh?\u00c2\u00a0 And why don’t they explain …\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you, Neill Blomkamp, for not<\/em> explaining all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 SF doesn’t need any more di-lithium crystals.\u00c2\u00a0 There are the usual round of reviews saying it’s good and hence not really<\/em> science fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t help those people.\u00c2\u00a0 One reviewer didn’t seem to think Blomkamp was aware this isn’t a happy ending.\u00c2\u00a0 No\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI think he got that part.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m still getting it.\u00c2\u00a0 I loved this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw District 9 by Neill Blomkamp yesterday, and I still can’t get the last frame out of my head.\u00c2\u00a0 That such an image could matter to me, that I would care at all, much less have it haunt me, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}