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District 9 Reflection

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Individual struggle to survive What does it mean to self-preserve yourself? It means to keep yourself away from things you know can end up harming you. In the film, “District 9,” the director Neill Blomkamp shows that the main character is put in charge of talking to the alien species or, prawns that appeared out of nowhere to change location. Wikus who was chosen to move the prawns out was filled with joy because he thought he would easily do the job and still have a happy life except it didn’t turn out the way he thought it would. Wikus is the type of person to do anything that’ll benefit him, and prove that he is a great person that anyone could rely on. In the film we get to see two sides of Wikus, the part where he is a suck up and the part where he yells to turn the camera off so he doesn’t get his reputation ruined. When in district 9, Wikus made a mistake …show more content…

We find out that Wikus can use alien weaponry, and that his body could be worth billions or trillions of biotechnology. Once the dissection comes, he starts to struggle and eventually break free. His instincts are to push everyone out of his way and take a hostage when he could potentially be killed. Wikus doesn’t know what to do with himself, he just wants to fit in with society and when he is refused, he moves to district 9 to hide within the rest of the prawns. He goes to a certain prawn that he harassed earlier for help, eventually he passes out in his shack and they are forced to help him. This is when Wikus finds out that this prawn was hiding the fallen part of the mothership under his shack and is told that he can be converted back to a normal human so he desperately tries to do everything the prawn needs to get whatever he needs back. He then creates a mutual relationship between him, a half human and prawns so that he can go back to living a regular life

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