The funniest bit from District 9 has got to be where he comes home and his house is in darkness – he walks in and says to his wife:
“I need to get to the toilet quickly, why are the lights off? Is the power off again? Listen baby I think I might have crapped in my pants” then the lights come on and 20 people shout “surprise!!”
Aside from that, for me as a south african the film is actually very disturbing. There is no doubt at all that the plot is based on how non whites were treated here for many years – there are too many similaraties to list.
And it’s not all from the apartheid past either. Where the film talks about “Muti Killings” – Nigerians eating body-parts from Prawns as a cure for various sicknesses – that happenes even today. Bodies are often found – (usually down in Kwazulu-Natal and usually childrens bodies) with bits missing, where witch doctors have told people with various illnesses that they need to eat body-parts from healthy bodies in order to get better.
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