District 9 is a film about people. Well, people and aliens I guess. It is centered around the premise that an alien mother-ship crash-landed over Johannesburg around twenty years ago and there has been trouble ever since.

The film opens in a disconcerting documentary fashion. There are your standard news reels, street interviews and talking heads. All of them seem to point at the inhabitants of the ship as being immoral, predatory and most important of all, expensive to care for.