District 9 is a movie worth returning to (or seeing for the first time) as a powerful allegory for South African apartheid most specifically but also imperialism, genocide and institutionalized racism generally.
It’s literally “what if one of the genociders became one of the genocided?”, the movie.
Feb 1, 2026 07:30Through the main character’s earlier parts in the movie it’s also an incisive exposition of the banality of evil, how oppressors lie to themselves and even go so far as to brand their work as humanitarian, and how neoliberalism is basically the framework for all of it.
