{"id":1213,"date":"2014-02-19T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.7.128\/wpmigrate\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:02:32","slug":"aliens-invade-johannesburg-south-africa-in-district-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/travel\/aliens-invade-johannesburg-south-africa-in-district-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens invade Johannesburg, South Africa in District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/district9site.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chiawelo, Soweto\" title=\"Chiawelo, Soweto\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" align=\"right\" \/>Another movie about aliens invading Earth?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t be fooled &#8211; District 9 isn&rsquo;t just another typical alien movie.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Part summer blockbuster, part mockumentary and part social commentary, Peter Jackson&rsquo;s latest movie production by Neill Blomkamp, District 9, brings a wildly different perspective of alien-human encounters because it&rsquo;s frighteningly realistic. <\/p>\n<p>More on movies from tripatlas.com\/new?&nbsp; Get more on aliens in <a href=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/articles\/417\/Real_Life_X-Files:_Alien_Sightings_I_Want_to_Believe_In!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Life X-Files: Alien Sightings I Want to Believe In!<\/a> or discover ancient wonders of the world in <a href=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/articles\/931\/Travel_to_Transformers_2:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen_film_locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/articles\/312\/Travel_the_World_with_Indiana_Jones%27_Adventure_Destinations!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Jones&rsquo; Adventure Destinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up-close-and-personal in Soweto, Cape Town &amp; Johannesburg, South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although District 9 seems to be a movie about aliens, in reality, it explores and exposes the history of humankind&rsquo;s xenophobic tendencies, as seen most recently in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/district9sign.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A Sign from District 6\" title=\"A Sign from District 6\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" align=\"right\" \/>Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/strong> In District 9, aliens land by mistake on Earth in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1980&rsquo;s.&nbsp; After breaking into the alien ship, the exploratory team find millions of aliens alive but malnourished and stranded due to a missing part of their ship.&nbsp; The film&rsquo;s &ldquo;mockumentary&rdquo; style shows interviews and news broadcasts of a 1980&rsquo;s culture reacting to the aliens.&nbsp; <\/p><div class=\"3a64bb57635b757d04b12bcf0c14b9a3\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Chiawelo, Soweto.<\/strong>&nbsp; While worldwide government bodies argue about what to do with the aliens, nicknamed &ldquo;prawns,&rdquo; they&rsquo;re moved to District 9, an area on the outskirts of Johannesburg.&nbsp; Most of the movie takes place and was filmed in Chiawelo, a neighbourhood in the urban municipality of Soweto in Johannesburg.&nbsp; The importance of Soweto is the part it played in South African apartheid history, as a township where 60,000 were forcefully moved to, as part of the apartheid legislation in the 1950&rsquo;s.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>District 6, Cape Town.<\/strong> Similarly, later in the 1970&rsquo;s, an inner-city neighbourhood named District 6 in Cape Town was also subject to apartheid laws.&nbsp; Deemed a slum, over 60,000 inhabitants, including Africans, Muslims, Malays and Indians were forced out of their homes and relocated to Cape Flats, a neighbourhood 25km away.&nbsp; It was then deemed a &ldquo;whites only&rdquo; area and all the buildings were destroyed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tripatlas.com\/new\/images\/articles\/district9bench.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Advertising for District 9\" title=\"Advertising for District 9\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" align=\"right\" \/>The fictitious District 9<\/strong>, the &ldquo;aliens only&rdquo; district, quickly becomes a slum and almost 30 years since their landing on Earth, a private military contractor called Multinational United (MNU) step in to take over District 9 and care of the alien.&nbsp; 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