District 9 can you understand aliens

So he has no choice but to take shelter in the slums of District 9. Christopher and CJ take him in and vow to heal him. Wikus gets a taste of life on the other side. He realizes that the alien lives are worth just as much as his, so he essentially sacrifices himself so Christopher and CJ can escape.

The final shot of the film shows that Wikus has fully transformed into an alien and leaves anonymous gifts at his wife's door to show he's still thinking of her. District 9 is a blatant allegory for class inequality. The aliens represent the poor and the human population represents the wealthy. The aliens are barely hanging on in their meager existence in District 9.

Yet the humans consider their camp an eye sore and want it out of their city. Wikus's transformation is significant because it allows a wealthy member of society to see what life is like below the poverty line. District 9 's ending proves that society could be a little more harmonious if the wealthy treated the poor with a little more kindness and understanding. But even a near miss can cause superficial burns and keep an enemy subdued. The Homeworld of the Prawns is mentioned to have 7 moons, it is also noted by Christopher to his son that it is several times bigger than Earth.

Due to the fact that the Prawns can breathe Earths oxygen atmosphere, it is very likely that their Homeworld has very similar conditions as on Earth. This would also explain why the Prawns landed on Earth instead of any other nearby planets on their route. However no hints are made in the movie where this Homeworld is exactly located or whether it is the only world inhabited by his species. At the end of the movie, Christopher can be seen guiding a navigational system in his craft, which shows a map of several galaxy-like structures, implying the Prawn Homeworld may be not located in the Milky Way.

It is also shown that the Homeworld is located in a globular cluster. Prawns reproduce asexually, meaning each individual possesses both male and female reproductive organs, and are capable of self fertilization. This makes their reproductive capabilities somewhat threatening, and has allowed their population to increase quickly, despite MNU attempts to limit the amount of offspring produced by aborting eggs and licensing young.

Once an egg has been laid, it will be connected to a food source such as a dead cow or pig via tubes, and in this way the developing Prawn will be nourished. Parents can be extremely protective of their eggs, and MNU officers avoid aborting while the parent is present to prevent violent confrontation. It is worth noting that the presence of inter-species prostitution within District 9 indicates that Prawns are capable of intercourse as are most hermaphroditic species of Earth, ie.

Physically speaking, they are toothless, and use a variety of feeding tendrils along the edge of their face to help quickly feed them. It's pretty clear Wikus becomes a full-on alien by the end of District 9 , so it's fair to wonder if there's any scrap of humanity left.

Throughout the film, Wikus slowly loses control of himself and acts in strange, alien ways. For example, his newfound insatiable desire to devour cat food isn't typical of most humans we know. That said, the flower Wikus leaves his wife is as good an indication as any Wikus still clings to an element of his humanity. Alien-version Wikus still feels an urge to let his wife know he's generally doing okay and hasn't fully lost his personality — even if he's a little slimier than last time she saw him.

Additionally, if we look closely at Wikus post-transformation, it's clear that one of his eyes retains its blue, human color, while the other is green like those of the other Prawns.

This would indicate there is still a small portion of Wikus that is still human and retains at least some human memories. He's certainly more Prawn than human, but he's still a bit human nonetheless.

In the end, Christopher — the Prawn Wikus fights alongside throughout the film — ultimately escapes the planet. Thanks to Wikus' sacrifice and assistance, Christopher is able to get his damaged command module working and fly himself and his son up to the recently activated mothership. Of course, the question becomes how long it'll be before Christopher is able to return to Earth. He promised to cure Wikus of his illness, after all.

How long will Wikus be forced to wait? Earlier in the film, Christopher convinces Wikus to help him by assuring him he can reverse Wikus' spreading disease. But after learning about the government's experimentation on his people, Christopher tells Wikus he needs to tell his people about what's happening before Christopher can dedicate the necessary time and especially alien fuel to heal Wikus.

Instead of curing Wikus sometime in the near future, Christopher estimates it'll take him three years to make the trip to and from his home planet back to Earth.

Christopher will return, but it's expected Wikus will be forced to live as a Prawn for at least three years until then. When the Prawns arrived in Johannesburg in , they were desperate and extremely malnourished. Whatever the aliens were searching for when they left on their expedition, it's clear there weren't many planets with useable resources between Earth and where they started from.

Otherwise, they likely would have been able to stop at one of those planets and grabbed whatever their version of Taco Bell is. They landed at Earth because they were literally starving.

But it's not like that trip has gotten any easier. The journey to Christopher's home planet should take approximately a year and a half — again, the round trip is three years — and it's unlikely any new, resource-rich planets have popped up in the 30 years between the Prawns' original landing and this new excursion.

Even worse, the mad rush to the ship at the end of the film guarantees Christopher and his son didn't exactly have time to pack a lunch. It won't be long before the two find themselves low on resources and desperate for a cat food Happy Meal. It's fair to wonder if Christopher told Wikus he could cure his disease as a way to trick the man into helping him escape Earth. After all, how many times have humans sprayed alien fuel in their face and slowly, painfully turned into Prawns?

Is there a standard procedure for reversing that almost certainly never-having-occurred-before situation? Although it's easy to see why some may be skeptical of Christopher's claims, his honesty later in the film gives us reason to believe he's telling the truth about his medical abilities. After Christopher and Wikus discover the government's horrible experiments on the aliens, Christopher changes his plan and tells Wikus he actually needs to head home before healing Wikus.

If that was Christopher's plan all along — lying to Wikus about a cure so Wikus would help Christopher get home — there'd be no reason to ever claim the plan needed to change. So I found that really interesting. I think that they do have a home planet, it's pretty far away probably in the Andromeda Galaxy, but what I like is that they'll live on the ship for thousands of years.

Obviously, there's much more of a population on the main planet, but the ships will go out and get the minerals and the ore and whatever resources they need and then bring them all back home. The other thing is that the ship was meant to clip together with other ships. So there's, like, vast amounts of resources that they're bringing to the parent planet.

And the ship, when the army generals or the queen of that particular ship died off by some sort of virus or bacteria that they picked up on some other planet, that killed them off. And it didn't effect these sort of resilient, hardy sort of drone workers. Then the technology is usually the thing that they relied on to save them, but in this case it sort of screwed them because it brought them to a planet that kind of treated them pretty badly, but it was the ship that realized that, unless it gets to a life sustaining planet everything is going to die, which is a cool idea.