DISTRICT 9 - Storyline
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the story of the super hit Science Fiction film "District 9" and for the basic information about the film and also for the cast and crew click the below links
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The movie starts when Wikus van de Merwe was preparing for an interview and in that interview he was discussing about the work that he and his colleague does and also explains about the MNU which acts as the bridge between Humans and Aliens.From that point onwards a cameraman usually follows him, till Wikus was found that he was infected.
After the film starts like a documentary when some of his co workers and his family members were talking about him and many spoke as if Wikus was dead and the rest of the film explains what happened to Wikus and also about the status of the Aliens who were staying in a place in Johannesburg,in a camp called "District 9" and hence the movie title is named after it and no humans can trespass these area.
After that it was shown as Wikus was selected for an operation in MNU.MNU is nothing but Multinational United and it is a private military organization which takes care of the Aliens who were settled in District 9 for over 20 years.When we look back at its history it was in 1982, a spaceship which has come form other planet failed to return as one of its command module was dropped accidentally.
So the Aliens there had no other chance but has to settle in Earth and the Government also approved for their settlement and they were considered as the refugees.A separate camp District 9 was alloted for them and humans can't tresspass that area, so as the Aliens.But the Aliens there were illtreated by the MNU and later in the movie it was shown that a resarch team in MNU also burnt the Aliens for their testing purpose.
So for the safety of both the humans and aliens and also due to the pressure from various organization,MNU decided to transport the aliens 240 kms, out of the city and it was for this operation Wikus was selected and the main duty for Wikus is to transport 18 lakhs aliens to the new place called as District 10.
But many in MNU felt that Wikus was not efficient enough to handle this problem.Now to evacuate all the aliens, on 9th August 2010, a 24 hour notice was given to all the aliens in the District 9, to cooperate withe the MNU for the transportation purpose.The the team lead by Wikus prepares to go to District 9 for the evacuation purpose.
While they were about to leave the MNU headquarters Colonel Koobus Venter,quarrels and he scolds Wikus as Wikus asked him regarding the limitation of ammos.This incident shows the character of Colonel Koobus Venter,who later proves to be great threat for Wikus and also the aliens.
Then the team enters District 9 and they enters each house there and asks to sign the agreement so that they could be transported to the District 10.Some agreed to sign the agreement, but many were not willing and they also beat Wikus and his team.Meanwhile helicopters also patrol the area and this was led by Colonel Koobus Venter, and if the Aliens were not reacting well they will shoot at them.
When Wikus and his team enters a house(shack), they were attacked by the aliens and Wikus was thrown away by a Alien and Wikus injures his left hand and he was helped by his assistant Fundiswa Mhlanga and medicine was applied to his left hand and it was covered with the cotton.Then with his injured hand he goes to next house and he finds that alien resist to co operate.
Then Wikus found his name was Christopher Johnson and they captured him.Then Wikus went inside Christopher's house he finds a small container with some mysterious liquid inside it.When he was about to open the container the liquid sprays in his face and Wikus didn't consider that a serious issue and he hands the container to the MNU department.
Meanwhile there was a Nigerian gang in District 9 camp under their leader Obesandjo, who traded lots of food cans for the high tech sophisticated weapons that also includes mechanized battle suit, with the aliens.But eventhough they got these weapons they, they don't know how to use it and they also went to the extent of eating the flesh of aliens, thinking that they will get their power.
After a very bad day in the camp and a unsuccessful mission at the first day, Wikus returns home and he was taken by surprise as his family members arranged for a celebration for his promotion in his office,MNU, as the chief for evacuating all the aliens to district 10.
While he was about to cut the cake he vomits and everybody was shocked to the see that he vomits black in color.The he faints and he was taken to the hospital.Then when the doctor reveals his forearm and he was suprised to see his hand was mutated into an alien appendage.The doctor was shocked to see this and he informs MNU and later the MNU takes him to its research center.
Now since he has the DNA of alien he can operate the weapons of the alien and in the research center they found that the was in the perfect stage between human and alien and they have decided to vivisect him before he gets transformed into a alien completely.This made Wikus worry and he immediately attacks the researchers and escapes that place.
After escaping from the MNU headquarters he was declared as a fugitive and the media channels informed that Wikus is highly contegious.Meanwhile Wikus who escaped from the MNU couldn't find any place to hide and therefore he goes to District 9, where he thinks it will be a safe place to hide from MNU.
There he goes to a shack and sleeps that night.Next morning he finds that shack belongs to Christopher Johnson, and that was the same shack where Wikus meet with an accident with that liquid.He also finds that Christopher Johnson was the alien who hesitated to co operate with the MNU.He also finds that Christopher has a small son.
Then Wikus explains the situation to Christopher and after that Christopher assures him that he can again make Wikus a human and also aliens can go back to their planet, only if he gets that liquid.Christopher also explains that he was preparing that liquid for more than 20 years.
So both of them decides to get that liquid from the container and they also takes hi tech weapons with them.They some how managed to get the container and come back to Christopher's shack.There Christopher says that there wasn't enough liquid present to treat Wikus and he also promised him that he will come back again after 3 years to cure him and he also revealed that he need to use this in the command module which was under the shack
Wikus was disappointed and he beats Christopher and enters the command module, where he finds Christopher son.Then he used this container and operated the command module and it begins to fly.But in the meanwhile MNU team has come to that place and they striked the module.
After the module fell again Wikus was taken away by the the Nigerian gang as they want him to get the power.At the same time Christopher's son who was in the module activates the module ship and this also activetd the mechanized battle suit and Wikus who had alien character enters this mechanized battle suit and he killed all the Nigerian Gang.
Meanwhile Christopher was arrested by the MNU men and Wikus saves him and asks to go to the module so that he along with his son can reach the spaceship and go to their planet.At the same time a tough battle takes place between Colonel Koobus Venter of the MNU unit and Wikus and finally Colonel Koobus Venter was killed.
Now Christopher and his son reaches the space ship and Christopher also promised Wikus that he will come after three year to cure him.Then the film returns to present where the TV channels show the last available footage of Wikus and also the colleagues and family members of Wikus explains that they would have saved Wikus if they would have known about his whereabouts.
Finally the reports says that all the aliens were transported to District 10 and the population of aliens have reached 25 lakhs and still growing.In the climax it was shown that Wikus finds a small metal flower at her door steps and this makes her to believe that Wikus was alive and satisfy her belief the last scene of the film shows an alien, with a bandaged left hand was creating a metal flower.
The IMDB rating for this movie is 8.4 out of 10.
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