District 9 blew my mind

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photo: Sony Pictures

Yesterday I met with my Hollywood book-to-movie agent and he mentioned a movie I hadn't yet heard of: District 9. So I went to see it last night with my friend Karen Ramos. We arrived at the theater to find a line of fanboys wrapped around the block (Karen's comment: "Bit of a sausage party here." Yeah. To put things in perspective, we were deciding between this and Julie & Julia.) The film was absolutely stomach-churning at times, and rattled our eardrums with near-constant