Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, when Christopher is pulled from the armored car and questioned about his plan, his arms are tied behind his back. A little later, when he is kneeling and the order is given to kill him, his arms are still tied. When Dinkus returns, Christopher is still on his knees, even after a soldier to his left explodes. A moment later, Dinkus arrives in front of him and Christopher is still on his knees, but now his arms are free.
District 9 (2009)
Plot summary
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
Genres: Sci-fi
28 years ago, aliens landed in Johannesburg, South Africa. A powerful corporation known as Multi-National United moves all the aliens into a concentration camp called District 9. After years of protest from civilians, MNU finally decides to evict the aliens from District 9 and move them to a more controlled area, appropriately named District 10. While overseeing these evictions, MNU officer Wikus van de Merwe encounters an alien named Christopher Johnson and finds an illegal lab in his shack. While snooping around, Wikus is sprayed with a suspicious alien chemical that has nasty results....
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More mistakes in District 9
Wikus Van De Merwe: Get your fokkin' tentacle out of my face!
Trivia: The topic of xenophobia runs strongly throughout the film. This is a very real issue for South Africa as evidenced by the xenophobic violence in early 2008 where approx. 30 foreigners living in South Africa were murdered and hundreds left injured and/or destitute. In fact there are still displaced foreigners living in homeless shelters, churches, etc today.
Question: Something I couldn't figure out. The black fluid (in the glass cylinder) made Wikus start turning into an alien. If the aliens were mainly interested in going back to their planet, why had they been developing a substance that could turn humans into aliens? How would this help them go home?
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Answer: That's more of a side effect of the fluid. See, only the Prawns could use their technology; it was "genetically activated", so to speak. So the fluid which powers their tech is like Prawn-gene concentrate. When Wikus was sprayed with the stuff it affected his genetic makeup.
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