The most ingenious idea of the whole movie is that even if the plot and the outline of the story seem absurd, from time to time, the movie pulls you back to reality very powerfully. The character interviews that are constantly being broadcast, the factual reports about the mutation of van, even the wanted reports broadcast in the news in the hot dog shop. While pulling us back to reality, it also allows us to reflect on the facts alluded to in this film.
To slaughter those prawns for weapons, to catch van lying to the media he had sex with aliens. The absurdity of real-life media may be far more than these things. Controlling the media and making those lies may be the same pain in our lives.
But van is a coward with a conscience. He dared to resist the inhuman experiments of human beings for the cruelty that he could not tolerate. Dare to help that wise prawn. Dare to let others have a chance to escape first, perhaps the most interesting thing about van as a hero is that he believes in the promise of the prawn and continues to live in order to return to human beings one day. Back to the wife's side.
I believe if District 9 were to make a second installment, the prawns would come back for vans and use their beam weapons to destroy humans. At this time, van, whether as a prawn or a human, is also a time when the age has long been a hero.
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