District 9 is pretty much the most run-down, degraded, depressing, hopeless hellhole of a town you could ever possibly imagine. And, for Truth in Television value, it was filmed in an actual South African shanty-town whose residents were being resettled by the government at the time of filming. In the commentary, the director pretty much describes it as Hell on Earth.
amaranthuscaudatus replied to your post “District 9, you say? Aliens as refugees on Earth? Really! Oh, that…”
Ugh, yeah. I get queasy just thinking about that film. It’s of those movies that makes you feel weary and sandblasted just for having watched it.
Your adjectives are well chosen.
I could read it. Or I could, probably, write it. (The parts with Wikus in the robot… yes. I can imagine how that would feel.)
But it was agonizing to watch.
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