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You can watch District 9 purely as a science fiction film or as an attack on years of social segregation in South Africa. the parallels are striking.
The plot begins with the early 1980s sudden appearance of a large spaceship which hovers over Johannesburg. Eventually the ship is boarded by government officials and found to contain over a million individuals of an alien race. These aliens, or “prawns” as the townspeople later call them, are severly malnourished and sick.
The government brings them into the neighboring local cities and nurses them back to health. The aliens are freindly and apparently pose no harm to the locals, who nevertheless tease and taunt them for being different. Soon a government camps ares created inside of Johannesburg and the million plus aliens are jammed into them. While in these camps the aliens are subjected to tests, interrogations and then atrocities after the government learns that they have brought weapons which apparantly only they can use.
Most of the story takes place after a bigoted and previously uncaring government employee begins to realize what is being done to these aliens. Sickened by the many examples of inhumantity that he eventually witnesses, he decides to help the aliens escape and go back to their own world. However he has been accidently poisoned by an alien liquid that is slowly transforming him into an alien.
The race is on to see if the aliens can get off the earth before they are all exterminated.
The Movie is produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Neill Blomkamp, who is able to neatly incorporate the true incidents of apartheid where in a similar camp called “District 6″ was used for segregating blacks.
The best thing about the movie is a documentary type treatment, which makes it rather believable. Not just that, it aptly explores human emotions over various situations. A must watch, indeed!
Watch District 9 Cast
Grey Bradnam-UKNR Chief Correspondent/Christopher Johnson
Jason Cope
Sarah Livingstone/Sociologist
Nathalie Boltt
Dr Katrina Mckenzie
Sylvaine Strike
Les Feldman-Mil Engineer
John Sumner
Dirk Michaels
William Allen Young
Interviewer
Greg Melvill-Smith
James Hope-Police Officer
Jed Brophy
Thomas
Kenneth Nkosi
Paramedic
Anthony Bishop
MNU Doctor
David Clatworthy
MNU Doctor
Mike Huff
MNU Executive
Anthony Fridjhon
Mike Van Kerland
Andre Odendaal
MNU Medical Scientist
Louise Saint Claire
MNU Lead Medical Technician
Norman Anstey
Craig Weldon
Nick Boraine
Ross Pienaar
Robert Hobbs
MNU Mercenary
Simo Magwaza
MNU Mercenary
Sonni Chidiebere
MNU Mercenary
Matt Stern
MNU Mercenary
David Dukas
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