Thirty
years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the
hostile
attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the
aliens
were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures
were set
up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's
nations argued
over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the
aliens has
been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company
uninterested
in the aliens' welfare -- they will receive tremendous profits if they
can make
the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation
of the
weaponry requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an
MNU field
operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts a mysterious
virus
that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man
in the
world, as well as the most valuable -- he is the key to unlocking the
secrets
of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place
left
for him to hide: District 9.
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