Water into Wine

In creating a great story it must be universal or relatable to humanity as a whole. In District 9 the universal theme is discrimination, abandonment, and sacrifice. People are in a constant struggle with acceptance from others. The basic story is about an individual who doesn’t understand and pokes fun at another race and then becomes that race himself. It’s basically the story about the rich man who becomes poor and is abandoned and mistreated by all his rich friends, with a new twist. Aristotle states, “the function of a poet is not to say what has happened, but to say the kind of thing that would happen” (Ch.5 Universality). District 9 is a perfect representation of this concept because what the movie is actually about has never occurred. The story transforms the concept of racism and discrimination and places it into the genre of aliens vs. humans.