District 9 ... whine

Making gross and depressing movies should be declared a crime. I can tolerate bad movies like Cash, Tashan, etc. But I just can't understand the point of someone making a movie like District 9. Every movie normally has the main characters going through struggles, tiffs with the bad men, etc, but in the end something good happens and you go away satisfied.

Not so in the case of District 9. It starts off as a documentary and quickly degenerates into something worse than the worst horror movie. Some aliens have crashed into earth (Johannesburg) and are stranded here for two decades. They are put up in a transit camp of sorts which becomes their permanent residence and is called District 9. This transit camp quickly degenerates into a filthy slum. There are conflicts with the locals who either totally detest them or utilise them to create business opportunities. In the midst of this walks in our protagonist Wicus. He has been assigned to issue eviction orders to the aliens and relocate them about 200 kms from the main city. It's clear that although he has a good heart, he detests the aliens too. He enthusiastically goes about his job, condoning the killing of some resistant aliens, but relishing the sight and sound of their eggs and little ones being burnt alive. He calls it a mass abortion.

Meanwhile, a bunch of aliens are trying to get their mother ship repaired so that they can get back home. They have been collecting the fuel (alien stuff) for it since the past 20 years. However in the conflict between the humans and them, one of them gets killed and the fuel gets confiscated. While doing that some of it spills on Marcus. Here begins the grossest stuff (although there were a lot of gross things so far). Marcus slowly start turning into an alien. It turns out that his company is a weapons manufacturer and all they are really interested in is getting the technology for the alien weapons. These weapons cannot be operated by humans coz it needs some alien DNA to touch it for it to get activated. Wicus is now able to activate these weapons. He gets locked up and they do all sorts of tests on him. Just as the humans are about to kill him to harvest his body parts, he escapes. He then joins hands with an alien called Christopher and his son. Together they manage to retrieve the fuel. Christopher promises that he can turn Marcus back to being wholly human, however that would take three years. First he needs to get back to his planet and get help for the over 1 million aliens stranded on earth. Wicus is heartbroken. Even then he helps Christopher almost getting killed in the bargain. The alien disappears with his ship and Wicus is left to continue degenerating into an alien. The last shot shows him completely transformed into the alien life form, making a flower from some scrap for his wife who has taken him for dead. Totally depressing.

DO NOT WATCH IT.