"You half-breed piece of shit!"Aliens arrive in spaceships over South Africa. Being malnourished, and considered of low intelligence they are give refuge status and housed in an slum township known as district 9. Soon tensions start to rise within the human population and the decision is made to move the aliens to a secure township well away from Johannesburg forcably. To do so the government use a private security and weapons company. Heading one of the teams is Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), who accidentally sprays himself with an alien toxin, during an eviction. This causes his DNA to fuse with that of the aliens. An event that the company takes great interest in as he could be the key to controlling and using alien weaponry. Once they start to experiment on him Wikes realises he has to escape or die, and goes on the run within district 9.
Produced in a psuedo-documentary style, this is a thought provoking take on what is an alien, and race in general.
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