Comments on: Understanding how cultures work fail http://techpaladin.com/2010/07/17/understanding-how-cultures-work-fail/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ellen http://techpaladin.com/2010/07/17/understanding-how-cultures-work-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Ellen Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:53:07 +0000 http://techpaladin.com/?p=514#comment-877 Hi Nate, just stopping by and I saw this post. I definitely agree with you - though I didn't even make it through the main guy's change before I quit watching. For me the movie hit the viewer over the head with "apartheid" too much, with repugnant and illogical aliens playing the part of the victims, and I just couldn't get into it. The quality of the visuals was really great though, it really felt like a documentary. I wonder if maybe they were trying to say "this is how the white people in apartheid actually viewed black people" - because the people who would watch D9 probably came in expecting to sympathize with the oppressed, unlike dominants in a real segregated system. So the producers want you to really work to overcome your disgust with the aliens? But if that's what they were trying for they didn't do a very good job. From what I saw of it, the aspect of "documentary about human/alien apartheid" seemed like an awesome idea, but wasn't put into practice well. Hi Nate, just stopping by and I saw this post. I definitely agree with you – though I didn’t even make it through the main guy’s change before I quit watching. For me the movie hit the viewer over the head with “apartheid” too much, with repugnant and illogical aliens playing the part of the victims, and I just couldn’t get into it. The quality of the visuals was really great though, it really felt like a documentary.

I wonder if maybe they were trying to say “this is how the white people in apartheid actually viewed black people” – because the people who would watch D9 probably came in expecting to sympathize with the oppressed, unlike dominants in a real segregated system. So the producers want you to really work to overcome your disgust with the aliens? But if that’s what they were trying for they didn’t do a very good job.

From what I saw of it, the aspect of “documentary about human/alien apartheid” seemed like an awesome idea, but wasn’t put into practice well.

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