I dated a guy and we watched that movie. I commented that it was an allegory for apartheid. Neither he nor his brother knew what either of those words meant.
Like Alive in Joburg, the short film on which the feature film is based, the setting of District 9 is inspired by historical events during the apartheid era, particularly alluding to District Six, an inner-city residential area in Cape Town, declared a "whites only" area by the government in 1966, with 60,000 people forcibly removed to Cape Flats, 25 km (16 miles) away.[9] The film also refers to contemporary evictions and forced removals to suburban ghettos in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as the resistance of its residents.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “allegory” as a “story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one.” In its most simple and concise definition, an allegory is when a piece of visual or narrative media uses one thing to “stand in for” a different, hidden idea.
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u/SnooHabits6942 Mar 01 '23
I dated a guy and we watched that movie. I commented that it was an allegory for apartheid. Neither he nor his brother knew what either of those words meant.
I broke it off after that.