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District Nine
This SF movie is a real gem. Aliens arrive on Earth in the 1980s in Johannesburg, South Africa. They are segregated and forced to live in the slums of District 9. Of course the allegory to apartheid is intentional. The humans treat the aliens as subhuman, with casual cruelty. They want to evict them from District 9 to a special concentration camp 200 miles south. Wikas van der Merve is a bureaucrat in MNU (Multi National Unit), tasks with serving eviction notices to the prawn. He contracts something and slowly turns into a prawn.There are thus two devices to evince sympathy for the aliens' plight. One by allegory to apatheid. The other by turning Wikas into a prawn. We see the hopelessness of the situation and the magnitude of the "alien" problem. This should give us some perpective into South Africa's apartheid policies. It is SF at its finest, as social commentary.But don't let the praise for the allegory distract you from the other positive aspects of this movie. It also works as an action and blood-an
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