It starts out as a day in the life documentary about Wikus with him talking to the camera and then during the raid on District 9 to hand out the evictions it just stops being that and is suddenly just a movie from various character's perspectives. Sometimes the aliens, sometimes the gangsters, sometimes Wikus. Has anyone ever bothered to question the writer/director and come up with a reason for this other than incompetence?
shareWikus seemed to be participating in a documentary or in-depth news show about the aliens, the failure of close coexistence and the upcoming relocation to District 10. When everything falls apart for him, he's no longer doing this, because he's on the run.
sharethey used documentary stile to have characters directly tell us what's going on w/o looking like they are explaining to eachother what everyone of them should already be knowing about past events.
Once Wikus is on the run, the story is happening in "present" so what would be the point of documentary style explanations?
I quite liked the approach. It wouldn't be as interesting if his action scenes were told by someone staring at the camera, for sure.
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I'm happy with the transition from doc to traditional action and late return to doc.
There's some of that kind of stuff in End of Watch.
Also in Sidewalks of New York.
All three get away with it as far as I'm concerned.
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