The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 440 Alien Refugees
"District Ninth" is a movie with a setting first.

It didn't describe why the aliens came and what they experienced. At the beginning, it introduced the background of the whole movie in the form of a documentary.

Twenty years ago, a huge spaceship no smaller than a city landed on the sky above a certain suburb in South Africa, hovering at an altitude of a thousand meters with a technology that people cannot understand.

The human society is very nervous about this, but the alien visitors neither attack nor have any communication with the human society. Soon after, human ventured to send a plane to approach the spaceship, and the scene after opening the hatch shocked the fully armed and protected human beings.

It is a group of malnourished and ugly alien life like prawns. They were panicked by the sudden light when humans opened the spaceship.

The upper layer of the alien prawns seems to be all dead, and all the disgusting prawns are crowded in the cabin like gangsters. The living environment is extremely harsh, and they seem a little aimless.

They don't seem to come to "invade" the earth, but more like refugees in appearance who escaped to the earth.

On the surface, human beings are out of "humanitarianism", but in fact it is to study alien prawns, especially their spaceships, so an area has been marked out under the huge spaceship, and millions of surviving ones have been moved out of the spaceship. The extraterrestrial prawns were designed and placed below for containment.

This place where alien prawns are placed is called "Sector Ninth".

At the same time, this temporary shelter became a quarantine area.

When the aerial shot showed a low-rise house below, surrounded by isolated walls and barbed wire, accompanied by the drumbeat of the soundtrack, Mr. Jia had a little understanding of why this film was selected for the main competition and even opened. video.

He has been in major international film festivals all year round, and he naturally understands the political correctness of Europe and the United States.

This metaphor of apartheid slums is not even a metaphor when the story in the film takes place in South Africa, or the metaphor is obvious to him at a glance.

Even though political correctness is changing with each passing day, racial issues have always been enduring. It is very risky to use the subject of aliens to discuss this issue, but it will definitely add points to the film.

In fact, the beginning of the film really feels like a sci-fi blockbuster. The huge circular spaceship is quite shocking in terms of industrial design and visual effects.

He will undoubtedly establish a psychological expectation for the audience.

And when humans entered the spacecraft and saw a group of dirty, disgusting, ugly and malnourished alien prawns, the original psychological expectations at this time were quickly broken again.

A rather novel alien movie indeed.

Alien refugees look like shrimp, and local residents also call these alien refugees prawns. These prawns usually make a living by digging through garbage and eating kitchen waste.

These prawns have lived in the local area for 20 years, and they often go to the city to do some illegal things. The citizens are becoming more and more dissatisfied, so violent conflicts continue to occur in the Ninth District, and they are even violently expelled from the town.

There are also sporadic arson incidents in the Ninth District, and houses have been burned down.

There are signs such as "no entry for non-human beings" or "human use only" everywhere in the city, in parks, in front of shops, and even on road traffic signs, everywhere.

After 20 years of accumulation, the human-prawn conflict has reached the verge of breaking out.

In 20 years, human beings have lost interest in these prawns. There is no relief, no sympathy, no curiosity, and they have become a burden to this society.

Therefore, the management department of the United Nations dealing with extraterrestrial affairs and the local government decided to relocate the "Ninth District" where the alien refugees lived to a place far away from the city, and establish the "Tenth District" to solve the "human shrimp" contradiction.

The task of relocation was handed over to the United Nations agency in charge of dealing with the "Ninth District" issue, and the local police were "assistant".

However, after 20 years of reproduction, the total population of the "Ninth District" has expanded to 200 million even though the living environment of the alien prawns is relatively harsh.

Therefore, this high-sounding measure aimed at "improving the living conditions of alien refugees" while taking care of both humans and shrimps obviously cannot be backed by violence, and it must be resolved by violence.

Zhang Yi is the representative sent by the United Nations "Ninth District" special processing agency. He is responsible for language communication and legal interpretation. It belongs to the soft part of reasoning. Come hard.

The wife played by him and Wan Qian are both staff members of the United Nations "Ninth District" Special Committee. They have studied aliens in South Africa for a long time. They can be regarded as "alien experts" and have indeed conducted in-depth research on alien prawns.

In the camera, Zhang Yi, with his eyes, shows the style of a United Nations bureaucrat and scholar. He has a good understanding of the habits and social structure of District [-] and alien prawns.

It is also his "prawn pass" status that allowed him to become one of the leaders of this "alien refugee relocation operation".

Zhang Yi was originally a zoologist, and he also studied the alien prawns in the ninth district with the mentality of studying animals and plants. This time, Zhang Yi is undoubtedly excited to follow the security personnel into the ninth district. He is going to publish A book about alien prawns, this is a rare opportunity to get more first-hand information.

Although the Ninth District is relatively isolated from the human world, it has close contact with humans. There are not only alien refugees in the Ninth District, but also humans. They are local gangsters.

The prawns can exchange with the gangsters by selling the supplies and weapons they brought down from the spaceship.

Although the agency that manages alien affairs has already recovered the alien weapons in the Ninth District, there are still hidden weapons hidden in the Ninth District and circulated through the black market.

Humans can't use these sci-fi-looking alien weapons at all, even these alien prawns can't use them.

Scientists speculate that these weapons should only be used by special individuals in these alien prawns, which may be the upper layers of aliens, but these upper layers of aliens all died due to unknown reasons, so these prawns will be reduced to muddleheaded situation, and became refugees wandering on the earth, even unable to leave.

The hideous alien prawns have lived in District 20 for [-] years, so although they have their own language, they can also understand human language, and "prawn experts" like Zhang Yi can also understand alien languages .

At first, Zhang Yi took the relocation documents and tried to get the alien prawns in a room to sign. These seemingly low-intelligence prawns were willing to accept the cat food Zhang Yi sent them, but they still refused to sign.

Zhang Yi led the security personnel to continue to go deep into the ninth district, and found dozens of dark, disgusting alien eggs that had not yet fully hatched in a room.

Seeing Lie Xinxi, Zhang Yi took a prawn egg and dissected it in front of the camera that followed the filming, and introduced the strangely shaped prawn egg in a serious manner.

While the rest of the security personnel took out the flamethrower and wiped out the alien eggs in batches with a playful and clean-up mentality.

The sound of crackling in the flames sounded.

Chief Jia's expression gradually became serious, and the crowd in front of and around the white curtain was also silent.

Chief Jia didn't know if the alien's image was designed to be ugly on purpose, and whether these dark alien eggs were deliberately portrayed in a disgusting shape.

But it works really well.

It's not that the audience has developed an aversion to the alien prawns.

But in such a contrast, the empathy for the alien prawns will have a more shocking effect.

That's right, although the alien prawns are still ugly, the insect-like mouthparts that made the scalp tingle at the beginning have not changed, and the so-called alien eggs are as sticky and ugly as crude oil covered with a layer of black.

But these prawns are taller than normal humans, dodging under the threat of gunpoints from security personnel, or resisting in vain to try to intimidate humans.

Zhang Yi and other action groups treat the prawns seemingly politely, but in fact they seem to drive away wild animals. The behavior of taking alien eggs for fun made the audience feel uncomfortable about the ugly alien prawns. pity.

Zhang Yi yelled "Don't shoot" when the soldiers raised their guns and asked them to put them down, and when they found the alien eggs, they smiled and pulled out the oxygen pipes, saying, "In this way, it will die." What a prank.

The explosion of stones splattering, the bloody and bloody scenes, the camera has been following up without fear.

What makes people feel uncomfortable is what human beings do.

"Good shot! The main character has changed!"

Chief Jia secretly praised in his heart.

"What a splendid story!"

Not far away, there was also a vague admiration, and it seemed that someone thought of him.

Although the film begins with a straightforward shot that subverts audience expectations, turning the usual alien imagery in science fiction works into unprecedented alien refugees.

Established the film's maverick image.

But the aliens are too ugly. The first impression of the image of prawns and insects is that the audience is scared and disgusted, especially the mouthparts that are a bit like locusts and a bit like shrimps and crabs.

And this impression is entirely due to human beings' innate instinct to fear insects, even though Mr. Jia judged from the beginning of the film that the main theme of this film is a metaphor for apartheid and racial conflict.

But he still can't replace the ugly alien prawn that makes people uncomfortable. He believes that other audiences are also the same. They still take the human side as the protagonist. Movies are about the art of feeling. If they can't convey an intuitive emotional experience, then It doesn't help to talk about the truth.

But just now, after some foreshadowing about the current situation of the ninth district and the conflict between humans and alien prawns, Zhang Yi led the security team into the ninth district for a few minutes.

The point of view has shifted.

Or the protagonist has changed.

Although the camera still follows Zhang Yi, the audience has already begun to change their natural human perspective, and began to substitute into the still ugly alien prawn.

Some realize it, some don't.

It was as if the spring breeze turned into rain, and the change of position and perspective was completed silently.

By the time they realize this, the transition has been smoothly completed, the ugly alien prawn is the protagonist of the film, and the human... seems to be the villain.

Director Jia recalled Chen Jingxing's answer when he was interviewed by the media on the red carpet: "This is a different kind of alien movie."

Really different.

(End of this chapter)