{"id":54224,"date":"2025-10-14T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/?post_type=film&#038;p=54224"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:08:31","slug":"district-9","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/en\/film\/district-9\/","title":{"rendered":"District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1631185421436{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Venerd\u00ec 31 ottobre 2025<br \/>\n00.15<br \/>\nTeatro Miela<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Friday 31st october 2025<br \/>\n00.15<br \/>\nTeatro Miela<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728379372647{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Neill Blomkamp<br \/>\nSouth Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada 2009, 112\u2019<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/trieste-sciencefiction-festival-2025\/\">2025_Sci-Fi Classix Gabriele Mainetti presenta<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710231564303{padding-right: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wikus van de Merwe, burocrate pavido e mediocre, viene infettato da una sostanza aliena e lentamente muta in uno dei \u201cgamberoni\u201d che fino ad allora aveva guardato con distanza, con la freddezza di chi non vuole capire.<br \/>\nLa trasformazione non \u00e8 pi\u00f9 punizione per l\u2019orgoglio, ma condanna per l\u2019indifferenza: la carne diventa qui il luogo della coscienza, il veicolo attraverso cui l\u2019uomo impara a sentire ci\u00f2 che prima ignorava.<br \/>\nBlomkamp usa la fantascienza per raccontare l\u2019apartheid, la paura dell\u2019altro, il contagio come metafora politica.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The protagonist, Wikus van de Merwe, a shy and mediocre bureaucrat, is infected by an alien substance and slowly mutates into one of the &#8216;prawns&#8217; that he had previously viewed with distance, with the coldness of someone who does not want to understand.<br \/>\nTransformation is no longer a punishment for pride, but a condemnation for indifference: the flesh becomes the seat of consciousness, the vehicle through which man learns to feel what he previously ignored. 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