Movie- My thoughts on District 9

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There are many Extra-Terrestrial theories out there that tie into our earliest civilizations as well as what will happen in the year 2012. While I consider these theories interesting and fun to read at times, I still find them to be far out and improbable.

What's really been catching my eye lately has been what seems to be more and more movies on the subject, which seem to almost be conditioning for "something" that may happen in 2012. We see movies like "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage "2012" coming out in November and most recently "District 9". I believe that there are no coincidences and that we are all connected in some way. And whether or not you choose to believe the theories of an extra-terrestrial basis, it's interesting to see such "radical ideas" enter into the mainstream consciousness via Hollywood.

Here's a few things that I found interesting about District 9:

1. The underlying theme of coexistence between humans and an alien race.
2. Symbolism- symbolism has been the language of secret societies for eons. I found it very strange that the symbol on the breast plate of the UN troops was a pentagram with a goat head in the middle representing Satan.
3. The storyline took place in 2009, and when the alien told the main character her would be back in 3 years to help him out...well that would be in the year 2012.
4. The actual image of the aliens is much like the reptilian images that have been portrayed in Sumerian carvings as well as what researcher David Icke has been hypothesizing for years now.

just some observations from a pretty strange movie...

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The beginning of the movie I

The beginning of the movie I couldn't stand, after that it got pretty good. I didn't like the ending so much.

But good movie!

Great Movie!

The best Sci Fi since "Children of Men".

Sad - (maybe a spoiler)

I was so sad at the end of this movie, but did not cry, even though I wanted to; (Okay maybe I sniffled a little, but nobody saw).

Now, I thought it took place in 2010 (a subtitle). But then the movie showed a subtitle that stated the craft landed in 1982 & the relocation was taking place 20 yrs. later which would make that 2002 not 2010.

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica

Loved the Movie, because of the symbolism

I thought the movie used Aliens as a means of discussing sensitive topics of Apartheid and Government intrusion into our lives. Creating poverty, desperation, crime, and a system of abuse and intolerance.

Then they took the "hero", and placed him in the setting of the outcasts and he found not just the motivation, but the will to finally resist....sacrificing everything for what is right.

It is symbolic of the Liberty struggle, fighting oppression against overwhelming odds. They do a phenomenal job creating empathy for the alien races (which initially I thought they would fail completely at), and for the "drones" locked in the system.

They throw people in prison for minor indiscretions and have no regard for their own citizens when concerns for profit, and state interests come to light. Their "government" was not so different from ours. It is a depressing movie, highlighting many of the problems our society is evolving towards.

Anyway...that's how I felt about it.

Cheers.

I came to the same

I came to the same conclusion as you.

I enjoyed the movie... It was filmed like no other movie I've ever watched before.

i went to see it wednesday night,

and walked out after about a half an hour.
i couldn't take it.

Ron Paul is my President

Ron Paul is My President

I guess it was not a

I guess it was not a coincidence... my desire to revisit this classic re-mix tonight.
Sci-Fi + Political incorrectness = They Live Cripple Fight : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REbOa9lno6s
Thinking about the town hall meetings and the 'angry mobs' outside of them, was what reminded me of this, (Jimmy wants 'reform').

If you can't laugh, you'll just go insane.

Not a fan of Nick Cage, but Knowing was HIS best film, by far.

Also, one of the better SciFi alien, prophecy type films to come along in a long time. Effects were incredibly well done, especially the subway crash scene. Loved the Ezekiel's "Wheels within wheels" depiction. Awesomely done.

I COMPLETELY concur with you that NONE of what we are seeing unfold rapidly before us, is ANY coincidence.

Recently, I nearly fell out of my damn chair, when I heard Alex Jones interview Buzz Aldrin a couple of days ago, and it entered Richard C. Hoagland territory: a monolith on the moon! Like Keanu, wuh!

And to the MoonTruth faction out there, I am aware of the Van Allen Radiation Belt, and have observed how irrelevantly thin the command module's non-radiation shielded walls were. However, if we are to assume NASA's story to be true, but most of you know better by now, than to believe ANYTHING gvt says, I'm of the mind that either they had "help" in getting to the moon, or once the astronauts landed on the moon they really did SEE "something," and they were told to not to speak a word.

Then, there is the verified fact of what Hoagland put forth in his latest book, "Dark Mission:" CIA played a little visual Neuro Linguistic Programming. They used an out of place media personnel dressed in cowboy garb, out of place in the control room to visually hook the observer. Then he proceeded to place a card on the assigned seats of media that read that basically the lunar landing was taped at a Hollywood back lot, in effect planting the current MoonTruth controversy playing out some 40yrs later. It'd be easily dismissed, had this anonymous "cowboy" in pressroom NOT talked to head of NASA's Press-liason.

But, the prospect of filming a simulated landing in a pre-landing, just in case the lunar feed died, which to be frank, in midst of the artificially induced arms race funded by the NWO banksters during the Cold War, such stunt would not entirely be unthinkable. Imagine LIVE lunar landing, with America's technological supremacy over the Soviets on the line, would we not at least consider framing a Kodak perfect landing, even IF they successfully landed on the moon, just in case something were to go wrong?

Making this whole 2012, NWO going for broke, and gradual acclimation to aliens and UFO by the gvt, the Vatican, Hollywood, and the "news" media, even weirder is the one "other" ingredient: the high degree Mason Arthur C.Clarke's monolith "alarm clock" as depicted in 2001 Space Odyssey. It cannot be a coincidence that suddenly Edgar Mitchell, and Buzz Aldrin, of all people, are now suddenly pushing forth this ancient tech, and ancient civilizations with possible ties to Egypt's pyramid builders meme, in what seems to be a forced Twilight of the American Constitutional Republic, cannot be a mere coincidence.

Amongst their Masonic lore, they must believe that our ancestors had a settlement on the Moon, or as out there as it may seem, our Progenitors were indeed of Martian origin, as Richard C. Hoagland proffers.

But Dec. 21, 2012 is certainly not too far away. Either, for the evangelicals, they'd be either be raptured, or Brown Dwarf "WormWooded," or Messiah, or AntiChrist will return. For those of Velikovsky's cataclysmic school, a massive Earth's Pole Shift, now already slowly underway, would peak, and we'll see the "Flood" again, with moving mountains, continental plates, earthquakes with 3km high tsunamis. Those of Sitchen's school of thought may surmise that Planet X and Nibiru will swing by and our Sumerian's alien progenitors would checkup on their genetic creaton. Or, if more of the NewAge, or Mayan paradigm is to be true, perhaps a massive simultaneous Kundalini awakening would happen to those meditatively prepared, and ascend into pure energy and become like Star Trek's "Q" like god-beings, when the Galactic Center lines up. Or, if Earth bound the Biblically depicted select 144,000 will "ohm" the Earth back into stability with higher frequency consciousness, and perhaps an age of ubiquitous telepathy and telekinesis and othe Psi-powers would reign normal.

Or, if what the Hopi tradition foretells, and what gvt may know to be true, what is depicted in the film Knowing, is the more likely scenario in which is the reason why NWO is acting like a bunch of criminals (okay, redundant), who are out to steal as much as they can, before the store go up in flames, literally, but just in case the solar mayhem doesn't burn up the entire planet, they'd hedge their bets and set up a tyrannical PanOptiCon, in case they survive, in which afterwards, they can run a technocratically controlled slave based neo-feudal system, like declining Egyptian Dynasties' Pharaohs of yore. Afterall, I think those idiots delude that's what their; Masonic lore tells them to be, anyways.

Then again, who really knows. All I know is, if and when that Fri, Dec 21, 2012 comes I'd like to think I am surrounded by loved ones, enjoying an early pre-Christmas feast, or giving and gifting, or be in midst of a 72 hour meditation marathon. If we go, we go. But I'd rather be outside facing the coming burning Sun's wave, and bless my and my loved one's eternal soul so that we may begin life anew some where else in this vast Universe, or dimensional hyperspace.

Now, that was a Neo's Wuh! ,o)

Would the Symbolism for the

Would the Symbolism for the Illegal Alien be Obama? lol

"The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance"- Thomas Jefferson

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I think it might be ME! I might be the connection!

I worked on 2012 (I work at Columbia Pictures in the legal department).

We're distributing DISTRICT 9, which I saw last night.

And, I've been here at the DP for a long time.

However, I think it's probably just a coincidence. When you think of the zillions of things that are coincident right now (the plum tree in my back yard is coincident with the moon in the sky, etc.) there is no way that most of these are not "just coincident." Few have significance.

As for 2012, I remember Y2K and the Georgian calendar and that cult in San Diego... Riots! Panic! Mass suicides! Somehow we survive them.

DISTRICT 9 was a good movie, by the way. My favorite screenwriting teacher says most Sci-Fi is about oppressive society, and most stories of any kind are about the journey from slavery to freedom.

IMissLiberty

IMissLiberty

Oooh tell us...

IMissLiberty, no doubt you get asked some of this often, but here's my hail Mary, if you may, and are so DP courtesy inclined:

You wouldn't by any chance have any scoops on Roland Emmerich, as far as how much aware of the 2012 lore he is? Does he subscribe to any particular version? Does he know what's up with the NWO? Or is he an NWO insider, or, a Mason, like James Cameron?

Just curious...

Alas, I know no more than you...

I know who is in charge of making sure his name is spelled correctly on the screen. I know how to contact his attorney. I can see the movie for free.

Showbiz isn't nearly as glamorous as it may appear.

You can probably tell a great deal about what he believes by the movies he has made. It's not as accurate as with writers, but generally if there's a thematic similarity from one film to the next, it will be a clue.

Producers, directors and actors who do different things all the time, with different messages, are probably not deciding based on the message. Writers, on the other hand, usually have a hard time writing anything they don't believe.

IMissLiberty

IMissLiberty

District 9 ..I watched it last night

I really enjoyed the well thought out back story....where they showed the first interactions between the humans and aliens...where the language barriers where broken down...where it explained why/how the rest of the world just ignored the aliens living in a slum in South Africa...

..Ohh wait the movie didn't do any of those things..and that was lame

That being said the movie was somewhat entertaining and I did like the way the aliens were depicted (their movement, language, body type, etc)

Haven't seen it.

I haven't seen it. But I would note that vampires, monsters, and space aliens were very popular during the Great Depression. So were stories about rich people with happy endings. (That didn't sound right.) The common element would appear to be escapism.

Symbolism

In addition to the pentagram and the goat head, the number 1 appeared throughout the movie. The number 7 was present just as much (the truck number, the timer on the camera film) but it was presented as 07. Some people think that it refers to a date: Jan 7th 2012 (As you pointed out the 2012 comes from the 3 years it will take the alien to come back)

bumping myself

For the evening readers... :)

"Get to the choppa!"

"Get to the choppa!"

Nice handle. I went to the

Nice handle.

I went to the movies to kill some time the other day, and couldn't bring myself to watch GI Joe, so I watched "District 9". I was very impressed. Some are saying its one of the best sci-fi movies ever. I wouldn't go that far but it is worth the price of admission and the time to watch it.

Sci-fi seems to have usurped much of the power of political satire. If you are looking for a movie which has its morals in order and makes a scathing attack against concentration camps (through South African Apartheid) seeing this is well worth your time.

Since this is doing well, expect the same crew to put together the "Halo" movie in the future.
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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." -- Cicero

"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." -- Cicero

Hey, G.I. Joe was great.

Hey, G.I. Joe was great. Then again, I grew up watching it on Saturday mornings.

I'm wanting to see District 9, though. So far, sounds like it will be a movie that I will enjoy.

the movie Funny People

Sort of gave me a nwo sense of feel

Without going into a long

harangue about my beliefs, it may behoove one to read up on the latest scientific reasoning--torsion fields, zero-point energy, the increasing evidence that the entire galaxy is ONE living, breathing interconnected organism, et cetera... Evidence of ET's being involved with humans can be found in ALL ancient religions...
In addition, these major religions forecast a coming change in 2012. (Mayans, Sumerians, etc) On December 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM every planet is lined up with the center of the galaxy..this only happens once every 26,000 years (if my memory serves me well). There are a lot of doom and gloom prophecies out there. I prefer to believe that 2012 will herald a Golden Age, propelling us into a planet 1000x more positive than we currently enjoy/or don't enjoy...

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Just to be safe

have Christmas early in 2012. Wait, Ron Paul wins the Presidential election in 2012 and then the world ends. We just can't catch a break.

HaHaHa!

Thanks for the laugh...
Btw, not all of us who believe "something" is going to happen in 2012, believe that it's the end of the world. Some of us think it's the beginning of a Golden Age, right here on Planet Earth...

Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
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What the heck?

Seriously? Did you just use the word behoove as a way to condescend to people while babbling about "torsion fields, zero-point energy, blah blah blah" and then include that the "every planet will align with the center of the galaxy" crap?

Just one question.

HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY WHILE SPOUTING COMPLETE FALSEHOODS?

Case in point, the most we've had lately was 5, count em, 5 planets in alignment, and that was back in 2000 and won't happen again for 200 years or so. Please read:

http://www.etsu.edu/physics/etsuobs/starprty/22099dgl/planal...

Lots of pictures to explain.

And who are these etcs? I'd like an example of the Sumerian calendar lining up with 11:11AM please. Heck, please show me an example of 11:11AM in the Mayan calendar. I'd love to see where the source is on that one. I'm actually not even aware of a Sumarian calendar which predicts an event on 12/21/12, but I'll digress as here I haven't spent the time looking and may be wrong.

"If my memory serves me right"

Obviously not so much. If you weren't spending your time reading spurious theories and David Icke's nonsense, your opinion on anything regarding astronomy MIGHT actually be valuable, but if you're going to just contribute to numerology-mongering and tossing out lies faster than Obama, it'd be better if you'd just keep it to yourself. People actually unfortunately believe things like this without checking for themselves.

Here, so everyone can see for themself:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar

Plug in 2012, December 21st, and the time 11:11AM. Feel free. Enjoy. Take a look at what we've got.

PLEASE stop spouting this garbage like it's in any way shape or form true. PLEASE check your facts.

Ugh, I'm going to bed, this is making me want to drink.

Eric Hoffer

Wow! I certainly

made you angry. I don't know where to begin! First of all, I meant no condescension. At one time, I wrote logic puzzles and sold them to magazines. To keep things interesting, I frequently would use words that are seldom used in everyday language. Sometimes, as you have noticed, I still do! It's second nature, now.
In no way am I attempting to convert you or anyone else to my beliefs. There are some new theories out there, I find them interesting and wanted to share that information with others. For every theory, there is a naysayer. You can post links that support what you believe, and I can provide links that support what I believe, ad infinitum. Is this really necessary? Can we just agree that we don't agree, both respecting the other's right to feel differently?
I rarely read old posts, and only caught your comment to me because someone else asked me to come here to read his comment. I re-read what I had commented and do see that I have an error...it was an honest mistake, though...it's 11:11 UT, not AM...
You ASSume a lot! I have never watched one David Icke video and I don't follow his teachings. I am aware of him, though. I have seen many people arguing back and forth about him in other video comment sections.
You go on to say, "People actually unfortunately believe things like this without checking for themselves." Isn't liberty about being RESPONSIBLE for oneself? So if people don't check things out for themselves, I am, according to you, not allowed to state my belief or opinion, which later may be proven wrong???? Are you saying that these people have NO responsibility in this? Rarely, do I post anything without stating that it's just my belief and/or opinion, and rarely do I post without providing links. All any person needs to do is google the topic and they will get many hits---they are then FREE to choose whether they believe it or not.
Here are a few links, but like I said, every theory has a naysayer:

Mayan 2012:
http://www.december212012.com/articles/solar/2012_The_Astron...

Sumer, Vedic, Bible, Egypt:
http://www.prophetsmanual.com/home/index.cfm?navID=1&itemID=1

Planetary alignment (scroll down to Avebury Manor)
Http://divinecosmos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...

Torsion fields:
http://divinecosmos.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf...

Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
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Blatant disregard

Blatant disregard for what is actually scientifically even REMOTELY accurate pushes my buttons.

We can't agree to disagree. Look at your sources. Seriously, we have:

"December 212012.com" Now THERE'S an unbiased source!
"Prophetsmanual.com" I'm sure we've got lots of accurate astronomical information there. A self published Croation who says of himself: "Author is born in Zagreb, Croatia, 1955. Received engineering degree from University of Zagreb in 1981. Since 1984 residing in Johannesburg, South Africa. Work and conceptualization of ideas expressed in book are result of selfless research over many years and extraordinary insight and dedication to reveal unique truth about reality of our existence. The end result is long awaited revelation of Holy Grail of knowledge with unprecedented consequences that are bound to shake the world from its foundations." Oh yes, I can feel the world shaking now.
"Divinecosmos.com" Are we seeing a trend?

You're getting your information from crappy sources. THAT'S the problem here. This isn't an "agree to disagree" situation. I'm not going to agree that you MIGHT be right that 2 + 2 = 5. It's not a matter of opinion here. On the one hand we have scientists studying the patterns of the solar system and using computer modeling to predict accurately where the planets will be at a certain date, and on the other hand we have "Prophets Manual" self published over at I-Universe, where the motto is, "We'll publish anyone's crap for money.

Really? Do I have to explain why one is a crappy source?

Maybe I'm being unfair. Lets check DivineCosmos.com, run by this guy: http://divinecosmos.com/images/stories/david-bigsmile-ls.jpg giving a "bigsmile.jpg." Who also says, "David is also the subject and co-author of the international bestseller, The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?, which explores the remarkable similarities between David and Edgar" Oh good. A book that says, "I'm psychic too!!!! Just like Edgar!!!!" Yeah, he's not selling anything. Not a chance.

Really man, really? You're using these as sources? I've got scientists and computer modeling and physics, you've got self proclaimed psychic:

This guy----> http://divinecosmos.com/images/stories/david-bigsmile-ls.jpg

I re-read what I had commented and do see that I have an error...it was an honest mistake, though...it's 11:11 UT

Oh good. Never mind the whole "the planets aren't actually going to align in that entire year" you've managed to point out that your error was the wrong time zone. Let me clarify: Nowhere in that ENTIRE year will the planets be more in alignment than they were in 2000.

You ASSume a lot! I have never watched one David Icke video and I don't follow his teachings. I am aware of him, though. I have seen many people arguing back and forth about him in other video comment sections.

Ah, then I'll take back my point about spending too much time reading David Icke. I'll now blame it on an inability to recognize that some things are right and some things are wrong. "Agreeing to disagree" is how we got our current system of government. Just like we cannot "agree to disagree" with Obama, the same holds true with arithmetic and the same holds true with the data regarding planetary travel cycles.

Isn't liberty about being RESPONSIBLE for oneself? So if people don't check things out for themselves, I am, according to you, not allowed to state my belief or opinion, which later may be proven wrong????

The point of my post is to show other people where you've gone wrong. The point is that YOU aren't checking your beliefs. These are EASILY checked facts and figures. They're available all over the place, and yet you're trusting your view of the world to idiots selling self published books and self proclaimed psychics who also took a look at Caycee's book sales and said, "me too!!!"

Are you saying that these people have NO responsibility in this? Rarely, do I post anything without stating that it's just my belief and/or opinion, and rarely do I post without providing links. All any person needs to do is google the topic and they will get many hits---they are then FREE to choose whether they believe it or not.

Stop hiding behind the curtain of "belief" and take a look at what's actually on stage: You were blatantly wrong, didn't take the time to check, and posted up a cloud of nebulous garbage. You were taken in by whoever started this garbage about planetary alignment, believed it was a trusted source and spread it on.

PLEASE don't take all this the wrong way, but thinking like this HAS to stop. You're obviously not the only person doing this, but when we're guilty of it we need to be hit with a stick. I'VE been hit with the "big stick of logical reasoning." It happens to the best of us, but it needs to happen.

Eric Hoffer

Thanks

I was wondering if this show was more educational than fictional.