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Synopsis: In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Neill Blomkamp
Production: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 110 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2009
112 min
$115,646,235
Website
5,542 Views


You see now,

these are the cowboys.

They shoot first, and then

they answer the questions.

Sorry, is this above the allocated

amount of ammunition?

Because I see your

pouches are full but...

I think maybe you should

speak to the colonel.

F.A.G. over here says that

we got too much ammunition.

No, all I'm saying, Koobus,

is that, you know...

you should find ways of making

you guys more efficient...

Listen to me, you f***!

Get him outta my face.

There are rules, we're all living

by rules in this world.

Well, l don't think he can

be forgiven for what he did,

cause it's like a betrayal.

-I've gotta get going, Les.

I think we're gonna have to cut

this interview, cause we're gonna go...

Take your magazines, people.

Come on, lets go.

The Prawn doesn't really understand

the concept of ownership of property.

So, we have to come there and say:

listen, this is our land.

Please, will you go?

It's difficult to put

the vest on by yourself.

Thomas, can you help me?

-All right, boss.

They told me I was gonna

get the vest inside the Casper.

Thomas, just look on the side

if there's a vest there?

I'm just concerned about my family.

-Don't worry about the vest, it'll be fine.

Rights groups have demanded

that mercenaries should comply

with all UIO regulations

in District 9.

We're coming to you

from the entrance of District 9

as today, Multi National United

sets out to relocate

approximately 1.8 million

alien residents from their homes.

Human rights groups are

keeping a watchful eye,

as many suspect

abuses might occur.

We're seeing heavily armed

private security forces

being deployed into District 9.

Backed up by

significant air support.

We'll go shack to shack

and get them to sign the form.

First one E.X. triple 7.

We're seeing the convoy stop.

The operation is about to begin.

Just stay focused.

Are you ready, Thomas?

-Yeah. -Okay.

Is that a signal?

Okay, fellows.

You stay behind us.

Good luck, boy.

Stay low! Where is he going?

What is it?

It's clear that security is very high.

This is only the beginning

of a total clamp down.

This is MNU agents.

Open the door please! -Open up!

Hello! Hello, hello...

This is Wikus Van De Merwe

from MNU.

We are here to serve you

an eviction notice.

You just put your scrawl there.

-F*** off!

All right! Thomas, hold it!

We've got his scrawl there.

Because as he hit it,

it counts as a scrawl.

First time we come in,

there will always be a little bit

of tension happening

between us and them.

Hey, you can't eat that, man!

The prawn likes to eat the rubber.

To him it's like a marshmallow.

No, no! Guard!

Don't confront him like that!

Did you see that?

Right in the roost. Stay calm!

This is gonna be a problem cause

now all prawns are coming out,

they wanna see what's going on.

Stop it! Stop it!

Bring my kit.

See, everybody is gathering now.

Don't shoot or you're gonna

turn it into a warzone!

What is that? Is that a tear gas?

-No, it's cat food.

It is cat food.

I just distract them.

No it's not my house.

I don't live here.

Well, that's a pity because,

you know, this...

This is a nice cat food, you know.

But of course, it's not your house.

So, we'll just have to go and give it

to someone else. -Yes! It's my house!

We need you to sign here.

Now you can take that...

All right. Stop it!

The creatures became incredibly

obsessed with cat food.

Something about it, like catnip

for cats. Only a lot more intense.

Hello? MNU. We are here

to serve eviction notices.

What is eviction?

What we have stranded

on Earth in this colony,

is basically the workers that are

unable to think for themselves.

They will take commands,

they have no initiative.

They've lost all the

apt of leadership

through whatever cause.

We presume illness.

I'm holding steady over

Nigerian compound area.

Where there's a slum, there's crime.

And District 9 was no exception.

The nigerians had various scams going.

One of them was the cat food scam.

Where they sold cat food to

the aliens for exorbitant prices.

You put the money here first.

You don't get anything until you pay.

What are you trying to do?

I'll chop your balls off.

Not to mention

interspecies prostitution,

and they also dealt

in alien weaponry.

You have a car hijacking,

there's a chop shop there,

you can see that,

that's somebody's car in there.

The nigerians in District 9 are

headed by a man called Obesandjo.

He's a very powerful

underground figure in Johannesburg.

You don't want to play

with these boys.

They will cut you into pieces.

That's the boss there.

OK, no problem.

Don't look at him!

This is gonna cause problems.

All right, next. 766, all right.

MNU agents.

Open the door please!

Whoa! Jesus! What is it?

Check the other side!

Control, this is Wikus Van De Merwe.

I need a population control team

at JV 766 immediately, please.

Check the other side, Thomas!

There is 40 to 50 eggs in here.

Is this normal?

-This is an amazing find.

l can just show you

a little bit how it works.

Basically, a cow is hung from

the ceiling, you can see here.

Very little of it left, of course,

because all these pipes

supply the nutrition

to the little prawn eggs.

You can do one, I can show you,

want to see? -No, I'm fine.

There we go. Okay,

no more nutrition to the guy.

Then finally we take air back.

The little guy is gone

to a nice little sleep now.

You pop him out, there we go.

Pop him out here.

You can take that. You wanna keep it

as a souvenir of your first abortion.

You can feel like you did

one of these here. -Thanks, boss.

Okay, here it comes, guys.

This is the snake.

If we were going to abort

each egg one at the time,

it'd take a very long time.

So, this makes a lot of sense.

You hear that? That's a popping

sound that you're hearing.

It's almost like a popcorn.

What the egg does, it pops up.

The little guy, what's left of him,

pops out there.

So that's the sound that

you're hearing with the popping.

You don't need that, man.

Only sissies wear that.

Been drinking a little bit here, eh?

What are you doing with this

television set, sir? What's this?

Hey, smile for the cameras here.

That's a first day find.

-That's a big find.

You see this? Trent, look at this!

There's weapons all over here.

CK 5, 7572...

Some of the guns are small

but if it shoot you,

it make a big mess.

MNU is trying to move the aliens

for humanitarian reasons.

But the real focus,

just as it has been

right from the beginning,

is weapons.

MNU is the second largest

weapons manufacturer in the world.

We assumed that we'd be able

to pick up the alien laser gun

and just be able to shoot,

but it didn't work like that.

Because, as we discovered,

their technology is actually

engineered in a biological manner

to interact exclusively with their DNA.

It just doesn't work with humans.

And it's as simple as that.

This is basically a guy,

and there's 3 humans here.

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Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈnil ˈblumkamp]; born 17 September 1979) is a South African-born Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction film District 9, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He directed the dystopian science fiction film Elysium, which garnered moderately positive reviews and a good box office return. He is known for his collaborations with South African actor Sharlto Copley. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. Forbes named him as the 21st most powerful celebrity from Africa. more…

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