What does the ending of District 9 mean?

At the end, there are actually two pictures that can be compared. One is the tin rose in his wife's hand, and the other is the tin rose being made in prawn's hand. That means, Vickus has completely transformed into an alien, but still loves his wife, waiting for the fulfillment of his promise and waiting for his return home. From the moral of the film, I think this "ugly rose" is a mockery and attack on this hypocritical world.

The film District 9 tells a simple story: an alien spaceship is stranded in Johannesburg, and nearly one million aliens on the spaceship have to be placed in the city below the spaceship. However, with the increasingly fierce conflict between aliens and local city residents, aliens have to be restricted in freedom and centralized management, thus the whole alien group has become a vulnerable group, oppressed, exploited and stigmatized. However, with the explosion of alien population and the "alien" discrimination of urban residents, they had to be expelled again, so the concept of "the tenth district" came into being.

The node of this story is the process in which the MUN (Alien Affairs Administration) asked District 9 residents to sign a relocation agreement before the aliens were forced to move to the tenth district. During this process, Vickus, as the project leader, was infected with the alien's "fluid" and changed his DNA when he checked the alien's room. He was diagnosed as a prawn in about two weeks. Johnson wanted to go home and bring people to save his people, and Vickus wanted to go home as a human being, so they reached an agreement to fight side by side. In the end, Johnson stayed for about three years and started the spaceship to leave the earth. The end of the whole story is that Vickus has completely turned into an "alien", but he is still waiting for Johnson, who is about three years old, waiting to go home.

? District 9, in the form of mockumentary, records the wanton exploitation and oppression of aliens by MUN in the process of forced relocation, as well as the discrimination and stigmatization of "heterogeneous" groups by one group, and even deeply experiences all kinds of "hypocrisy" of human beings towards aliens in the lens. After Vickus was infected with the alien "fluid", he also saw that human beings have no bottom line for huge benefits. From the moment Vickus began to transform, he was no longer treated as an adult, and the so-called human rights had become a joke. In the laboratory, "scientific experiments" in which aliens are used for living experiments and various anatomies are even more ironic for human beings to "take in" aliens and stay aloof. Their "reception" and "management" are actually for the alien's biological genes and alien's biological gene weapons, as well as the huge commercial value attached to them. When Vickus gradually became a "prawn", as a firm "discriminator" at the beginning, it became a naked "discriminated person", and the process was definitely uncomfortable.

At the same time, it will make viewers have to ask some questions: Are those aliens really like what the documentary said at the beginning? Are they really inferior creatures without IQ? Is their chaotic social organization their incompetence or the damage caused by the material shortage deliberately created by human beings? These are all naked performances for you in the process of Vickus and Johnson fighting side by side: Johnson will also be heartbroken for the death of his companion, will do his best to bring his children home, will also calculate the benefit maximization of "limited fluid" like human beings, and even "promise". Seeing this, I have to ask, how different are they from humans? Does this human society not exist because of the chaos caused by the "extremely scarce means of production" in the "slums"? Further, how many people look at the "slum poor" around them with the concept of "discrimination" or even "expulsion"? How different are those poor people's situations from those of aliens?

Johnson wants to go home, and even wants to take all the aliens home. Vickus also wants to go home. He wants his old life-his beloved wife. However, there is suspense at the end. Johnson is seriously injured, and it is still difficult to decide whether he can reach a three-year contract. Vickus was completely transformed into a prawn, and then lived a slum life of prawns, with no change in sight. The most ridiculous thing is that Vickus's parents, boss, wife and even people from all walks of life commented on Vickus in the form of documentary again. Today, Vickus is no longer a human being. His parents thought he was dead, and his wife was left with nostalgia. The boss officially expressed his concern for the good employees who were dedicated at the same time, and there was even more sympathy and criticism in the society. The whole society is like he is "dead", and all the judgments are made in the form of "name after death".

? ? Johnson can go home in a spaceship for only three years, and there is always hope for the distance between time and space. As for Vickus, his home is just around the corner. The distance between him and his home is not time or space, but social "discrimination", which is the expulsion and exploitation, oppression and even crime of the "alien" by society. This contrast is simply "the collapse of human nature", which makes the face of Zhang Yizheng's words in the documentary become naked "hypocrisy".