I'm looking forward to watching Monsters later via sky.com/hd. I’ve heard very positive things about it, the film getting good reviews from even the Guardian! Monsters has been compared to District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s apartheid satire which similarly featured aliens in a post-awe spirit. In the film Nasa has received news that there is alien life on the galaxy and sent out a probe which returned to earth bearing alien seeds and spores which begin to grow in the place where the probe crashes, Mexico. The viewer will not be told whether or not the USA planned it to crash elsewhere, on Mexican territory, or whether that was a mistake. What does develop is a hostile attitude from the USA towards Mexico.
A photojournalist named Kaulder has been commissioned to photograph the aliens and their human victims and has been assigned his boss’s daughter Samantha to bring with him. Hating her at first, their relationship begins to change as their time together progresses. The film is a very postmodern sci-fi in that the approach to the monsters is very downbeat; they are not the focus of the film. The focus is the developing love story between the two protagonists as they journey through dangerous alien-ridden Mexico.