Cinema Drafthouse: Movie & Beer “District 9” | The Independent

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Normally a concert venue, The Independent hosts movie nights on Monday nights with a screening of the clever 2009 alien invasion film “District 9” about what happens 30 years after the aliens have arrived and the novelty has worn off.

There’s a two-drink minimum on movie nights, but we’ve never seen it strictly enforced.

District 9 (2009): In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed “The Prawns,” appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new ‘Prawn’ friends.

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