‘So bad it’s rad’: Reconsidering Neill Blomkamp’s South African Science Fiction Film CHAPPiE (2015)

Belinda du Plooy

ORCID: 0001-5036-1814

Engagement Office, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

belinda.duplooy@mandela.ac.za

Abstract

South African-Canadian writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s science fiction film CHAPPiE (2015) tells the familiar story of a robot that becomes sentient. Even though, to Blomkamp’s …