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| Movie: | District 9 | | Year: | 2009 | | Genre: | Action/Adventure | |
| Posted By: | Anthony |  | The film opens with a documentary-style series of interviews that introduce the situation. Twenty years before, an alien ship is seen coming towards Earth and arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. After hovering above the city for three years without any contact, humans decide to take the initiative and cut their way into the ship. Once they enter, they discover that the aliens are in a terrible state of malnourishment and sickness. They are later assessed as apparently being all "workers", with their leadership mysteriously missing. Camera footage shows what appears to be the ship's command module falling to Earth, but nobody has been able to find it, leaving the ship virtually inoperable.
The creatures are housed in a government camp, which overcrowding and militarization eventually turned into a slum, known as District 9. A massive black market eventually is setup between the aliens and a group of Nigerians primarily led by Mumbo, a paralyzed warlord. In addition to inter-species prostitution, the Nigerians exchange alien weapons for canned cat food, which has a similar effect to catnip on the aliens.
The movie takes place in 2010, 28 years after the aliens' first arrival in 1982. Patience over the alien situation has ran out and control over them was contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU stands to receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' advanced weaponry work, which is keyed to the aliens' biology.
An MNU field operative, a young pencil-pusher named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), is set with a task to move 1.8 million aliens to a new District 10 camp located some 240 km from Johannesburg, with the help from private security forces working for MNU. Tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when Wikus, by handling an alien device, begins changing into one of the aliens after the device accidentally squirts a dark liquid on his face.
A rapid transformation begins to occur, and shortly after exposure to the liquid, Wikus's left arm mutates into a claw exactly like that of a "prawn" - a derogatory name for the aliens (the name of the alien race is never mentioned; 'prawn' is the only term by which they are referred). Wikus is taken into custody and a series of tests and experiments are performed on him, revealing that he is capable of operating the alien technology, since he now has alien DNA. The scientists discover that his DNA is currently "in balance" with the alien DNA, which is gradually taking over. It is concluded that they should harvest his body for biological material at this critical point, to have the greatest chance of replicating his ability to use alien technology in other humans later. However, during an attempted vivisection Wikus escapes after overpowering his captors and flees from MNU.
While on the run from MNU, Wikus is forced to seek refuge in the run-down shack of an alien called Christopher Johnson, the same alien which Wikus attempted to evict earlier, who created the alien device that infected Wikus. The device contains fuel that Christopher scavenged from space craft parts scattered around District 9. Although initially hostile towards Wikus, Christopher eventually agrees to assist him reverse the transformation. Christopher can undo the mutation by getting Wikus aboard the mother ship hovering over Johannesburg. It is revealed that Christopher had been secretly hiding the ship's command module under his shack, and he needs the device to power it.
Wikus manages to steal some alien weaponry from Mumbo and his gang, with Mumbo vowing to capture Wikus and eat his mutated arm, which his witch doctor believes will give him the power to operate the alien weaponry. With Christopher's help they launch an assault on MNU and successfully retrieve the fuel sample. While there, Christopher discovers that MNU has been experimenting on his people. Wikus and Christopher return to District 9 and Christopher admits the process involved to cure Wikus could take up to three years to complete, as Christopher wants to first return to his home world to seek help in rescuing the rest of his people. Furious, Wikus knocks Christopher unconscious and powers up the ship himself. The MNU mercenaries target Wikus and destroy one of the command module's engines, causing it to crash land inside District 9. After being captured by MNU, a battle between the MNU mercenaries and Mumbo's gang breaks out. Using the ambush to their advantage, the thugs manage to capture Wikus. Right before his arm is chopped off, Christopher's son activates several systems in the mothership, including the autopilot systems of a mechanized battle suit, which slaughters Mumbo and his men after they fire on it. Wikus then enters the alien walker battle suit, and after initially attempting to flee, returns and rescues Christopher. Armed with a lightning cannon, tracking missiles, and a high-powered machine gun, Wikus begins to slaughter the MNU men. After being knocked over by a anti-tank sniper round, he convinces Christopher to return to the shuttle with his son, over Christopher's objections to take Wikus with him. Before separating, Christopher promises Wikus he will return in three years time to return him to human form. Christopher then boards the shuttle and activates a tractor beam which brings the command module back to the mother ship.
As the command module docks with the mother ship, Wikus is shot in the back and the walker suit ejects him. Wikus, heavily wounded, begins dragging himself away from the leader and sole survivor of the MNU mercenaries, but is quickly caught. Just before the mercenary shoots Wikus, aliens burst out of the surrounding slums and dismember the mercenary.
The film concludes with another series of interviews and news broadcasts, showing the humans' view on the events that unfolded. The aliens are successfully moved to District 10, which now has a population of 2.5 million and is growing. One of Wikus' coworkers manages to hack MNU's database and publically exposes their illegal genetic experiments. There are many differing theories on Wikus' fate. Some people believe that he either left on the mother ship, is in hiding, was captured by MNU or a government agency, or is planning to return with the full might of the alien race and declare war on humanity. An interview with Wikus's wife reveals a small metal rose was left on her doorstep (Wikus strongly believed a gift is worth more if it was made personally). She mentions that her friends have told her that it could not have possibly been Wikus, but she believes that he is out there somewhere. An alien with a bandaged left arm is then seen standing in a junk yard fashioning a small metal rose out of scrap metal, implying that Wikus is indeed alive, his transformation from human to alien is complete, and he is still awaiting Christopher's promised return. | | Views | 850 | |
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