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Alive in Joburg

  • 20052005
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Alive in Joburg (2005)
ShortSci-Fi
An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg.
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    • Neill Blomkamp
    • Neill Blomkamp(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Braam Greyling
    • Godfrey Seome
    • Dawie Ackermann
    • Neill Blomkamp
    • Neill Blomkamp(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Braam Greyling
    • Godfrey Seome
    • Dawie Ackermann
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    • 16User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Braam Greyling
    • Cop 1
    Godfrey Seome
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    Dawie Ackermann
    • Afrikaans Professor
    Sweetness Hlomza
    Patrick Hlomza
    Bennet Mogobithla
    Zakiel Mogobithla
    Jess Newing
    Scott Donaldson
    Jason Cope
    Jason Cope
    • UN Official
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    Sharlto Copley
    Sharlto Copley
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    • Trivia
      District 9 (2009) (one of Blomkamp's later films) is based on this short. Both Alive in Joburg and District 9 were written and directed by Neill Blomkamp.
    • Quotes

      Alien: We don't want to be here, this place doesn't want us... we have nothing, nothing.

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      Featured in Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema: Science Fiction (2018)

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    10/10
    A beautiful and revolutionary movie
    Most interesting in this film it's that, on the one hand, it's a science fiction. On the other hand, in contrast of what it happens in the majority of these films, history occurs in the past, in 90's. The director Neill Blomkamp uses a clear metaphor of racism, not only between whites and blacks, but between races in a ampler way. Using sci-fi and journalistic and documentary style, Blomkamp displays a courageous vision of the conflict between the races: if we observe intently, the great majority of that who discriminate aliens is the African people; ironically, they are those that would have to better understand the situation of aliens. The moral of Neill Blomkamp's fable is that any race can be racist, if it not have understanding. It is a beautiful film, and an appeals for compassion and peace between races.
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      • 2005 (South Africa)
      • Canada
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