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Originally Posted by dna82

some things that didn't make sense.

Spoiler!

well....
the plot holes i saw were
1) you have 1million aliens on a huge floating spaceship that serves as the perfect place to hold them because they can't get off, and no humans without consent from the government can reach them. but nooo.. you stick them in the middle of a populated city seperated by... chain fences?

2) you take the aliens off the ship, but let them smuggle out huge mechs and 1meter long guns?

3) you have this supposedly multi billion dollar corporation managing this shantytown, and you let some crippled Nigerian stockpile huge caches of alien technology?

4) small arms technology is more important then interstellar space travel technology? wtf aren't there teams of researchers on the ship tearing it to pieces.

5) so, humans can understand prawn, and prawns can understand human and read. but none of them have asked each other. 'so.. where ya from? how's it going?' who flies your ship?

Spoiler!

I see you didn't pay enough attention in the movie.

1) Their were 1 million aliens 20 years later since their arrival. Based on the fact that have up to 50 babies at a time, we can predict their numbers were closer to 40,000 odd thousand on the ship. NOT 1 million to start.

2) We have no clue how they were evicted from the ship. They drilled into the ship, but we can predispose humans were not ready for initial hand to hand contact. They aliens may have used a beam to beam themselves down into district 9. This question though is unknown. Remember this is were the alien shipped landed. MNU might have felt it was easier to allow them to drop themselves out of the ship to the location underneath them, District 9. I believe humans had no idea of how to transport 40,000 Aliens as they were so foreign to them. Think of humans initial caution of contacting diseases etc etc. The chain fences were a simple way of alienating (no pun intended) them from humans.

3) Could it be that MNU did NOT want to provide food/money/resources to these aliens. They believed that because they knew weapons would not work without the aliens, it would be suitable for a black market economy to exist in which the aliens were fed food, in exchange for weapons unusable to the Nigerians. If at one point MNU found a way to use them, they could easily usurp the Nigerians with their billion dollar backing and soldiers and take control of their cache.

4) I do believe at the beginiing of the movie MNU decided they wanted to go into the ship to see what was in their. They found aliens, but we are not sure if they haven't as well tried to take technology from the ship. Were also not sure because of the health of the aliens, if MNU decided not to go farther into the ship, but rather leave a hole open for the Aliens to get out.

5) If you have seen Alive in Joburg or one of the trailers you would realize that the aliens were interrogated once they came into District 9. Their is a direct conversation in which an Aliens says all they want to do is go back home. We can predict that yes they had discussed home, who flies your ship, what is wrong with your ship etc. Remember the news reported that they theorized that a piece of the ship had come off causing it to not be able to fly. They must have studied the ship extensively and tried to gather as much info the Aliens would be willing to give up.