"District 9"
Aliens have been portrayed in film as either monstrous conquerors or peaceful allies for decades.
They attack Earth in the hope of taking its resources and destroying humanity, or they visit with the intent to bring peace and prosperity to the planet.
"District 9" looks to change all that with a fresh take on how the first contact with aliens might happen.
In the film, aliens contact our planet several decades before they arrive. The world wonders how our first meeting will transpire, but no one predicts what actually happens. The aliens arrive as refugees from their planet looking for a place to rest before they venture further into space.
The world governments quarantine the aliens in District 9, a small area near Johannesburg, South Africa. There, the aliens are kept segregated from humans and are forced to live in shacks like poor refugees.
Control over District 9 is eventually contracted out to a private corporation when the aliens refuse to provide information to the world governments on their technologies.
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
In this romance film, Eric Bana plays a Chicago librarian with an interesting genetic disorder.
Every time he experiences extreme situations of stress his body vanishes into thin air and he ends up at a different period in time.
Despite his inability to stay at any point in time for long, he meets a young girl (Rachel McAdams) and becomes her friend before vanishing.
He meets her again later when she is older and they fall in love.
The film follows their life together as he reappears intermittently and explores the hardships of falling in love with someone that is rarely around.
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