It's been 12 years since Wikus was left on Earth, and the alien spacecraft that said it was going to pick him up has never returned, but that doesn't stop fans from embracing District 9. The reason why this 2009 sci-fi film is so popular has to do with the wonderful plot and graphic performance, and of course, the South African director Neil Blomkamp used the film as a metaphor for the apartheid system of his homeland.
In fact, this film leaves many questions, such as where these alien creatures come from; why the "prawns" look barbaric and disorderly, but they can have a far higher level of technology than humans, and the author will explain it to you in combination with the plot of the film.
The story takes place more than 20 years ago, when a huge alien spacecraft hovered over Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, in 1982, but there was no movement at all until three months later, when humans actively opened the bulkhead of the spacecraft and found that there were a large number of humanoid alien creatures in the spacecraft.
First of all, these alien visitors are called "prawns" (prawns) only because they look like insects on Earth, plus they like to look for spoiled food from garbage dumps, much like a giant cricket in South Africa, "parktown prawn", so the local people gave them this name.
That is to say, although the "prawns" can understand human language (indicating that they have a certain degree of intelligence), they have never mentioned to humans what they call their race, nor have they heard where they come from or what their purpose is, which is very puzzling, right.
From interviews with some scientists in the film, it can be seen that these "prawns" living in the "ninth district" belong to a specific class, do not think independently, and lack initiative. Although they are physically strong, if they lose their leader, they immediately become disordered and chaotic (somewhat similar to the effects of queen bees on worker bees in a colony).
However, it is obvious that not all "prawns" are like this, at least the one that the protagonist encounters behaves completely differently from other kinds. Not only does it have a meticulous mind, but it also understands the principles of "prawn" technology, can collect and separate "black fluid" from their equipment, and even gives itself a human name, "Christopher Johansson".
Some theories on the Internet suggest that these "prawns" are refugees who came to Earth for refuge. But if this is a refugee ship, why don't the "prawns" directly state their purpose when they are clearly capable of communicating with humans? And the presence of so many high-tech weapons on a refugee ship is hard to believe in itself (no wonder mnu doesn't trust these "prawns", right?
From the slums of the "Ninth District" alone, MNU (the League of Nations) collected a large number of high-tech weapons, and judging from the effects shown in the film, the weapons of the "Big Prawns" far exceeded the power and accuracy of human weapons.
You know, Wikus had no special training and had never been exposed to alien weapons, but the first use almost wiped out Mnu's mercenary corps.
Even the "Nigerian Gang" has many such weapons there, they certainly will not come from the mnu, only from the private possession of those "prawns", but the problem is that these "prawns" were taken to the ground by the South African government to live, indicating that they were willing when they reached the ground, and these creatures armed with huge weapons did not even think of resisting.
Therefore, combined with the indications mentioned above, it is not a refugee ship, but more likely a slave ship. These creatures travel between the stars in search of planets with a view to using "fluids" to transform local species into "prawns" that match their appearance as slaves. These transformed slaves lack self-awareness and can only act according to the command of the leader of the community, and once this command is cut off, they can only return to their primitive state and live by instinct.
Christopher's son once asked how many moons their parent star had, and he replied that there were seven, while Earth had only one, and it was clear that it knew the origin of its race. It can be seen that Christopher is one of those native "prawns", so he behaves differently from other kinds. It's just that it may belong to some middle class (similar to the role of the navigator), resulting in it being able to understand the technology of its own race, but lacking the ability to lead other "prawns".
Remember how Christopher and his son reacted after seeing The Wikus mutation for the first time? They didn't look surprised at all, and the fact that the child even thought wikus was his own, suggesting that they already knew how this "fluid" could affect organisms.
This may also explain why, at the end of the film, Christopher does not hesitate to leave with his son, leaving millions of people to stay in the concentration camps on Earth, because it does not care at all, those "prawns" are not its people, just some plundered slaves, and then captured later.
The reason why the "prawns" chose Johannesburg, South Africa, is because it is far from the center of human civilization, and the population is dense enough that they only need to capture some slaves to leave before the human organization can effectively counterattack (of course, it may also completely occupy the earth); but man is not as good as heaven, and the spacecraft has an accident after entering the earth's atmosphere, resulting in the death of all the leading classes (the scientists in the film may be due to disease, but I think it may also be because of "slaves."). "Class riot"), only Christopher, the navigator, controlled the command module to break away from the mother ship and descend to the ground to survive.
At the end of the film, Christopher promises Wikus that he will come back to pick him up in three years, and if he is not fooling the other party, then the next time he comes to Earth, it may be a complete colonial fleet.
The above is the author of the "Ninth District" those alien "prawns" some speculations, again, these are not official information, just personal irresponsible guesses, you have different opinions, welcome to leave me a message, thank you for reading!
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