District 9 is about an exploration of identity if Aliens were to come to Earth one day and be forced to settle on the planet, the film mirrors Apartheid which took place in South Africa, even so far as to taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa. After aliens, the common slur being Prawns, live on Earth for 20 years, an organization called Multinational United (MNU) has begun a relocation from their current slum to an effectual internment camp. Wikus van de Merwe is an employee of MNU who is promoted to a position of beginning the relocation process, but in the process, gets infected with alien fluid, creating chimeric DNA, a hybrid between the Prawns and Human. After the infection becomes noticeable, Wikus is treated as an alien and becomes the most wanted man …show more content…
The Prawn were treated similarly to South Africans during the Apartheid area, in that they were forced to live in slums, and eventually relocated to concentration camps. Both the citizens and the government alike in South Africa respond in fear to the otherness of the aliens. The government of South Africa chose a multinational corporation, the MNU to deal with the Prawns, and in doing so created a great number of ethno-divisive and repressive policies, treating them as second-class citizens to humanity. Therefore, the MNU has gone for a short-term solution to the Prawns as a species, trying to stomp out any chance at a Prawn rebellion. However, the films end has an update from the beginning of the film that the Prawn population continues to grow in their new internment camp. Meaning that the problem will only grow over time, and the MNU solution of segregation is going to falter over time in response to population changes, as was the case of Apartheid in South Africa, which was entirely