The recent blockbuster sci-fi movie “District 9” was reviewed by some of our staff a few weeks ago. They give the movie a ‘thumbs up’ so you should definitely go see it. It’s about an alien spacecraft that becomes stranded hovering over Johannesburg and how the earthlings deal with keeping the aliens in quarantine. It’s a moral tale about the evils of apartheid and its potential out of this world consequences.
Film “makes Nigerians look bad”
It was reported that Nigerians are upset because of how they are portrayed in the movie. Information Minister Dora Akunyili has asked that movie houses stop screening the movie because it makes Nigerians look bad. “We have directed that they should stop public screening of the film,” she said. “We are not happy about it because it portrays Nigeria in bad light.” Nigerians are portrayed as gangsters, prostitutes and cannibals in the movie. They have asked the producer for an apology and also edit the film.
A more accurate portrayal?
Well, I’m upset about the portrayal of the Nigerians in this film, too. I’ll suggest the following character rewrites. Instead of Nigerian characters posing as gangsters and prostitutes make them Nigerian “princes” and “princesses”. Place them in exciting scenes crafting email messages asking for assistance from the aliens in recovering their family fortune. That would be much more appropriate. Once they start sending their spam to the aliens then all heck is gonna break loose. If the aliens didn’t have enough to be upset about before now they’ll really be ticked off after getting scammed out of their “cat food” money (oops – I should have given you a “spoiler alert”).
Mailprotector saves the day!
Of course, Mailprotector could become a prominent player in the movie. The aliens would adopt Mailprotector’s superior email security technology then we could all just get along. Nothing like a happy ending 
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