District 9/Heartwarming

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  • Every interaction between Christopher and his son.
  • The last shot in the movie is a fully transformed Wikus making a flower for his wife out of a tin can. Awwwww.
  • Wikus's wife holding out hope for his return (keeping his office intact, holding on to every momento from their life together, saving the flower he made for her) despite her friends' insistence that he must be dead.
  • Wikus's second phone call with his wife. After the first phone call about the MNU's lies about Wikus's alien sex, the second phone call reveals that Wikus's wife realises they're lies, and she tearfully asks Wikus when things can return to normal again.
  • Wikus's way to snap Christopher out of his Heroic BSOD: "Think of your son."
  • "We go home now?" "Yes."
  • "Three years. I promise."
  • Wikus runs away in the mech; Christopher has a gun to his head; Wikus comes back