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Blomkamp isn't a rightist any more than he's a leftist. I think he doesn't want to be pigeonholed politically, and his pictures don't reduce to a one-sided political point.

I'm inclined to believe my lyin' eyes:

Blomkamp’s 2009 Best Picture-nominated District 9, in which the black residents of his native Johannesburg demand that their black-run government clear out millions of feckless illegal space aliens, was universally praised by American critics as an apartheid allegory. Yet Blomkamp has relentlessly insisted in interviews that it’s really about “the collapse of Zimbabwe and the flood of illegal immigrants into South Africa, and then how you have impoverished black South Africans in conflict with the immigrants.”

22 posted on 08/14/2013 4:27:57 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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That’s why some on the left criticized him, but I wouldn’t assume Blomkamp shares Sailer’s opinions all down the line. How long would he put up with Matt Damon if he did?


23 posted on 08/14/2013 4:40:49 PM PDT by x
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