The Hurt Locker and District 9
The Hurt Locker
The film revolves around Staff Sgt. William James , Sgt. J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge who are the three members of a bomb-disposal unit in Baghdad. As their tour of duty enters its final weeks, the men face a set of increasingly hazardous situations, any of which could end their lives in an explosive instant.
The film begins with Sargent Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge in Baghdad, with there then Bomb Disposal Technician who is killed when a bomb he is disposing goes off. The replacement for the team is Staff Sgt. William James, a reckless bomb disposal technician addicted to the thrill of disposing bombs. The original members are shocked by the change in attitude within the team and Sgt. J.T. Sanborn even ponders on killing James by 'accident' by triggering the explosion.
While returning back to camp the team comes across five armed men dressed in Arab attire standing near a car with a flat tire. Immediatly suspecting hostile insurgents, the team have a tense introduction, before finding out that the men are actually privatly hired British Mercenaries. The group comes under fire from enemy snipers who shoot three of the mercenaaries dead. Sanborn and James borrow a gun and kill three snipers.
Next time we see the three characters, they are sent ot check out a warehouse, where James finds a body that he believes to of Beckham, who is a boy he has become fond of who tries to sell him DVDs and play football. The body has been surgically implanted with a bomb. James tries to deactivate the bomb and take 'Beckham's body' with. However when leaving, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge, Eldridge's psychiatrist, is killed in an explosion on the road. Seeking revenge for the death of 'Beckham', James breaks into the house of an Iraqi professor but finds nothing connected to 'Beckham's death'.
The team get called to a petrol tanker detonation and Jmaes decides to go find the insurgents responsible. While searching, Eldridge gets taken by the insurgents and whilst others try to save him, gets accidently shot in the leg.
The next morning, James is approached by Beckham, who James had believed to be dead and Eldrige is airlifted away while blaming James for his leg.
In the last two days before they end their rotation, James and Sanborn are called to deal with an Iraqi civillian who has a bomb strapped to him. James tries to save him but runs out of time. The bomb goes off, kills the civillian and injures James. Sanborn confeses that he can't deal with the pressure of his job anymore and want to go home to have a son.
James is seen living back at home with his wife and son. Yet bored with his normal civillian life, he starts another tour of duty back in Iraq.
The film begins with Sargent Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge in Baghdad, with there then Bomb Disposal Technician who is killed when a bomb he is disposing goes off. The replacement for the team is Staff Sgt. William James, a reckless bomb disposal technician addicted to the thrill of disposing bombs. The original members are shocked by the change in attitude within the team and Sgt. J.T. Sanborn even ponders on killing James by 'accident' by triggering the explosion.
While returning back to camp the team comes across five armed men dressed in Arab attire standing near a car with a flat tire. Immediatly suspecting hostile insurgents, the team have a tense introduction, before finding out that the men are actually privatly hired British Mercenaries. The group comes under fire from enemy snipers who shoot three of the mercenaaries dead. Sanborn and James borrow a gun and kill three snipers.
Next time we see the three characters, they are sent ot check out a warehouse, where James finds a body that he believes to of Beckham, who is a boy he has become fond of who tries to sell him DVDs and play football. The body has been surgically implanted with a bomb. James tries to deactivate the bomb and take 'Beckham's body' with. However when leaving, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge, Eldridge's psychiatrist, is killed in an explosion on the road. Seeking revenge for the death of 'Beckham', James breaks into the house of an Iraqi professor but finds nothing connected to 'Beckham's death'.
The team get called to a petrol tanker detonation and Jmaes decides to go find the insurgents responsible. While searching, Eldridge gets taken by the insurgents and whilst others try to save him, gets accidently shot in the leg.
The next morning, James is approached by Beckham, who James had believed to be dead and Eldrige is airlifted away while blaming James for his leg.
In the last two days before they end their rotation, James and Sanborn are called to deal with an Iraqi civillian who has a bomb strapped to him. James tries to save him but runs out of time. The bomb goes off, kills the civillian and injures James. Sanborn confeses that he can't deal with the pressure of his job anymore and want to go home to have a son.
James is seen living back at home with his wife and son. Yet bored with his normal civillian life, he starts another tour of duty back in Iraq.
District 9
In 1982, a spaceship of malnourished aliens arrive in Johannesburg, South Africa, to try and find refuge. The humans decide to that they and the 'Prawns' should live separately, with the aliens being kept in camp called District 9. The aliens are controlled by a company called MNU (Multi-National United) who do not care for there aliens welfare, but instead want to be able to use the alien weaponry they have found. When the company decides to move the aliens even farther away, they send Wikus van de Merwe to complete the signature of paperwork from the 'Prawns'. Bu while at an alien's slum, he becomes infected by unknown virus that starts to change his DNA and turn him into an alien himself. After going on the run and escape the MNU labs where they tried to experiment on him, he returns to the alien's house and meet the alien living there, Christopher. They make a deal that if they break into MNU and steal the container that Wikus confiscated, then Christipher would turn Wikus back to human.
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