I love prawns

Rating: 8/10 (20 March 2016)

District 9 poses very interesting views on very real-life events from a surreal sci-fi direction, the issue of immigrants can be seen everywhere across the globe. The way the aliens were depicted in district 9 were very interesting in the way that it is showing the problems with drugs, crime and slums. These problems are very real and are definitely not just fiction. It's like lots of modern day cases where a high population of immigrants move to a country and all of the problems that they face, the struggles in their lives.
The film discusses racism and discrimination, in terms of the lack of respect the humans had towards the aliens but also the racist name 'prawn'. In many ways it shows the inhumane ways of humans and the certain darker sides to the government where they do certain things to achieve their goals at any cost.
I really liked the relationship between the two leads, Wikus and Christopher. It shows that despite the differences there are ones among us who could learn to embrace lose differences. And all that it takes is time, to be willing to put in time to understand each other and the differences that are held between us and we can find the good in each other.
Finally I also would like to mention that I really enjoyed how the movie was depicted, the way is was made in a sort of documentary like way. It makes the whole thing seem like an actual current world crisis. The thing is by doing this I think that it is indeed pointing out that these cases are very real, slums, drugs and crime but also immigration, racism and discrimination. By making the movie's event very real world and seem like it is based on actual happenings it reflects the very real everyday cases that are just like the case with the prawns of this movie.