and loved it so much. I'm really really curious to know what everyone else thought about it, especially since almost all of my friends on dA are not South African.

I usually hate movies filmed in the style of documentaries and with handheld camera footage, but I found myself really enjoying this movie not only in spite of but also because of that. The overall style was very realistic, much more so than the usual Hollywood approach, and I felt that the documentary style only added to it.

Also there was a mecha. I go weak at the knees for mechas and the fact that the little kid alien used it to help Wikus just totally made my day. (Also, just - Wikus van der Merwe. Classic Afrikaans name. And the accent was hilarious too. Afrikaans people are funny. I love them so much.)

Another factor that was awesome was all the inside references that an outsider wouldn't get - there was, for example, a bulding tagged with Name, which is a gang that you see tagged everywhere here. Also, calling them Prawns was even an inside joke of sorts. In Joburg there are these MASSIVE HUMONGOUS roaches called Parktown Prawns. I'm so glad we don't get them in Cape Town.

And the scary thing is that muti really is a huge issue here. There are loads of murders for body parts and such - not often arms though, usually internal organs like hearts, livers, kidneys, spleens, etc. Ick. (Please note: South Africa is not a barbaric and savage country for the most part. There are just some people who haven't got that memo yet. Come on, try tell me your country's perfect.)