District 9

You know, after last year's corporate,

my wife was always encouraging me.

You know, she said: you did fine,

you did fine in the corporate.

I was a bit nervous.

This little guy... hello. Sorry.

That's nice, eh? Nice background

with the people there...

We are here at the... must I look..?

-Just look straight at the lens.

We are here at the...

MNU head office,

Department of Alien Affairs.

My name is Wikus Van De Merwe.

And behind me you can see

the Alien Affairs' workers.

And what we do here

at this department is...

we try to engage with the Prawn

on behalf of MNU

and on behalf of humans.

To everyone's surprise,

the ship didn't come to a stop

over Manhattan

or Washington or Chicago,

but instead it costed to a halt

directly over the city of Johannesburg.

The doors didn't open for 3 months.

It just hovered there. Nobody could get in.

And they eventually decided,

after much deliberation,

that the best thing to do would be

to physically cut their way in.

We were on the verge

of first contact.

The whole world was watching.

Expecting, I don't know...

...music from heaven

and bright shining lights.

Oh my God!

The creatures were

extremely malnourished,

they were very unhealthy,

they seemed to be aimless.

There was a lot of international

pressure on us at the time.

The entire world was

looking at Johannesburg,

so we had to do the right thing.

The government then established

an aid group that started to

ferry the aliens to a temporary camp

set up just beneath the ship.

We didn't have a plan.

There was a million of them.

So, what was a temporary

holding zone soon became fenced,

became militarized. And before

we knew it, it was a slum.

But the truth is, nobody really

knew what this place was.

There's a lot of secrets

in District 9.

At first, a lot of attention

was given to...

giving the aliens a proper status

and protection.

They're spending so much money

to keep them here.

When they could be spending it

on other things, but...

...at least they're keeping them

separate from us.

l want to be realistic with everyone.

The aliens will not be able to go home.

The aliens are here to stay.

There were literally thousands

of different theories

as to why the ship seemed inoperable,

and what was speculated was that

the command module had detached

itself from the main ship,

and then somehow

mysteriously became lost.

Did it fall by itself or was it

programmed? I don't know.

Examination of the

old video footage

shows very clearly

that a piece falls from the ship.

We look for it.

We look everywhere.

This piece that's falling

caused us bloody problems.

More energy weapon caches found.

The Special task force

conducted raids in District 9.

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

Tensions rose, and rose.

People became more and more fed up,

and eventually the rioting started.

Residents in Tembisa rioted

for the third consecutive night

in an attempt to remove

all the aliens from their township.

I think they must fix that ship

and they must go.

A virus, a selective virus.

Release it near the aliens.

They must just go.

I don't know where, just go.

If they was from another country

we might understand.

But they are not

even from this planet.

The government have enforced

a nationwide curfew.

The aliens, prawns,

they take my wife away.

The derogatory term Prawn is used

for the alien, and obviously it implies

something that is a bottom feeder,

that scavenges the leftovers.

I mean, you can't say

they don't look like that.

That's what they look like, right?

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