The movie reminded me of Kafka's "Metamorphosis", especially when the actor found his genes had been modified and could no longer remain in the human society. The feeling of him and the audience was most complex at that time, misunderstanding, loneliness, fear, anger, resentment, depression, all intertwined.
Actually, the alien in the movie were like refugee on the earth more than aliens. To shot the movie in Johannesburg, South Africa was indeed meaningful, where it was one of the famous places with racial divide on the planet. The confrontation between the aliens and the Earth in the movie was imprinted deeply by ethnic conflicts.
It was very fresh for the movie to begin in the form of documentary films, with strong sense of reality. The ending was surprising, which adopted the typical tragedy ending of some lyric story movie(two people deeply in love, but have to separate from each other because of their different races), and reinforced the theme of the film.
本片让我想起了卡夫卡的《变形记》，尤其是男主角发现他因为基因被改造而无法再留在人类社会的部分，那个时候的感情最为复杂，隔膜，孤寂，恐惧，愤怒，愤懑，压抑，全都交织在一起。
其实本片中的外星人更不像是外星人，倒更像是地球上的难民。片子选在南非的约翰内斯堡拍摄确实意味深长，这曾是地球上最著名的种族隔阂的地方。而片中外星人和地球人的对峙也带着深深的种族冲突的烙印。
影片用纪录片的形式来拍摄别具一格，具有强烈的新闻真实感。而片尾出其不意地采用了抒情故事片的常用悲剧结尾（两个人深深相爱，却因为种族不同而无法长相厮守），强化了影片的主题。
Performance impression:
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Stars: Sharlto Copley
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