I've just watched a horrible, cammed copy of District 9, the Sarf Efrikan sci-fi movie everybody's talking about. I have four comments:
1. Cammed bootlegs are rubbish. I will be watching this movie on the big screen, and I fully intend to get my memory wiped, MIB-style, to erase my memory of the crusty picture quality and screen-obscuring silhouette of some Russian dude's head.
2. The movie is brilliant, and although – as Roger Ebert notes – the third act does become a bit run-of-the-mill, that's not a problem when you have such an impressive mill.
3. Some US reviewers are reading the movie as an allegory on Apartheid. That's fair enough (though a bit lazy). I read it more as an allegory on xenophobia... which made it pretty powerful stuff.
4. Afrikaans swearwords are very, very funny.