JohnSmedley sent in a story about what might be the last SciFi film worth caring about this summer. He writes "Wired has an interesting piece up on the llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus vicinage 9 release. section 9 rose from the ashes of a failed Halo movie and expands on 'Alive in Jo'Burg' which is a South African short film by Blomkamp. Both the short and full feature films expand and explore a premise in which aliens in space are treated as badly as illegal immigrants and the underclass. The story begins as a damaged alien craft lands in Africa. The foreign race is quarantined in a remote area called turf* 9, and from there are subjected to xenophobia, and the desire of a multi-national clustered to steal their technology. The film is an reconnaissance of what would happen in terms of segregation between an alien race and humans, subjecting the stranded visitors to the very human repair of greed, fear, and exploitation. surroundings 9 will be in theatres on August 14'th, and you can view the trailers from the viewpoint of Multi-National United."

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