Not much is known about the movie's plot. It is, however, known to be based on Alive in Joburg, a short film (produced by Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley; Sharlto Copley also portrayed one of the interviewed policemen) about aliens landing in Africa and becoming slaves/migrant workers. In the movie they are called the "Non-Humans" and are forced to work by the fictional company, Multi National United (MNU for short). A trailer has been uploaded on the official website depicting the ongoing struggle between the humans and the aliens.
This movie was one of the trailers shown before X-Men Origins: Wolverine and I think it looks pretty interesting. It kinda reminds me of Half-Life 2 in a way when the Combine invaded.
Looks really good, yeah. I thought (hoped!) it was actually a movie version of Childhood's End or something... Not entirely sure why I thought that. Maybe just that interview with the alien, it reminded me strongly of some of the early scenes in that book...
In the op, I posted a trailer and near the end, there wasn't any translation on what the alien said and his face was censored. There is a new trailer, well it's the same thing, but this time there is a translation and the censorship is gone.
I saw a preview for this movie in the theaters recently, and it looks interesting despite the familiar "alien visitor" theme. I really liked how they blurred out the alien's face - definitely contributed to my curiosity.
On May 08 2009 06:38 JWD wrote: I saw a preview for this movie in the theaters recently, and it looks interesting despite the familiar "alien visitor" theme. I really liked how they blurred out the alien's face - definitely contributed to my curiosity.
OP Here is youtube clip
They probably blurred it out because you don't actually get to see what they look like until the end or something.
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On May 03 2009 13:19 sixghost wrote: This might be a dumb question, but why is the alien's face blurred out? Will it be the same way inthe movie?
Seems like an odd choice. If they didn't want to show the alien in the trailer, why show it at all.
To add to the viral campaign is my guess. People will try and decode the alien speak.
I think they just blurred it out in some trailers to have that feel like in some interviews when they want someone to remain anonymous - to retain their identity.
Because I've seen some trailers that didn't have it blurred out. It may also just be an error or just certain trailers - cause like I said, I've seen the same trailer where they're interviewing the alien, asking it why it came here etc, and it's head wasn't blurred - but it does look quite odd, really bug-ish, and thus, freakish.
The movie itself looks good. Ya, it does implicate humans as the evil ones in the movie - because they are wanting to take advantage of the aliens, wanting their technology, yet making them live in slums, and do menial work while they're basically held captive here. Which isn't too far-fetched. I believe we're portrayed quite accurately in movies involving alien encounters etc - but perhaps its because its human nature to fear what we don't understand.
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