中图分类法:	J951.1 版次：
著者:	Raubenheimer, Landi,
题名:	District 9 : [ Johannesburg as nostalgic dystopia /] / ,
其它题名:	District nine
载体形态:	xv, 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
内容提要:	Johannesburg, South Africa 2010: Wikus van de Merwe is an unimposing clerk working at the large company Multi National United (MNU). He has just been promoted and put in charge of relocating an alien refugee camp known as District 9 further away from the city. The aliens and their mother ship arrived above the city of Johannesburg in 1982, and in 2010 it still languishes above the cityscape. When the ship first arrived, the humans did not know what to do but, when nobody emerged from the ship and it became clear that its inhabitants were in trouble, they were rescued from the ship. The aliens were ill and starving. Put into a refugee camp, they were segregated from the citizens of Johannesburg for health and safety reasons. In the years following the aliens' rescue from their dying ship, the camp quickly declined into a slum, where a paraplegic Nigerian warlord called Obesandjo now runs an illegal trade in food, weapons and sex workers. The aliens are abject, slimy, insect-like creatures, who love to eat cat food out of tins. They have been given the derogatory name 'prawns', because they resemble the insects Libanasidus vittatus, crickets known as Parktown prawns, endemic to Johannesburg's wealthy suburbs. Wikus, overseeing the forced removal of the aliens from this slum, is almost a caricature of apartheid-era Afrikaner masculinity. He speaks with a heavy Afrikaans accent and his hair is conservatively parted. While he is diligent and well-intentioned, he is at heart racist and bigoted, and ultimately deeply afraid of the aliens. As if fulfilling his fear of the aliens, Wikus encounters an alien substance while he is going from house to house in the camp, gathering signatures from the aliens who consent to being relocated. When he comes across the alien substance in one particularly chaotic dwelling, it sprays into his face by accident, and his transformation begins. He rapidly becomes ill and, when he returns home to a surprise party celebrating his promotion, he vomits a black substance all over the food. He also starts to notice that his body is changing. Soon it becomes clear that he is turning into an alien himself. His right arm and eye completely transform and he even starts to crave tinned cat food. Wikus is admitted to hospital and becomes a test subject for the MNU personnel who want to harvest his DNA, now an amalgam of alien and human DNA. They also use him to experiment with alien weaponry, which humans cannot use. Wikus escapes and is forced to find refuge in the camp, where he meets the alien Christopher in the same chaotic dwelling where he originally encountered the alien substance. Together with his young son, Christopher is trying to repair a control module from the alien spaceship, which has been hidden under his shack for years. Christopher promises to help Wikus reverse the DNA effects of the alien substance if Wikus helps him retrieve the substance from the MNU who had confiscated it. In this uneasy alliance, they join forces to break into the MNU headquarters to recover the alien substance that is necessary for completing the control module. Targets of an aggressive pursuit, Wikus and Christopher flee back to District 9. Wikus finds he can use alien weapons and, in a climactic scene, he steals an alien mechanised suit of armour from Obesandjo to fight off the MNU's henchmen, to enable Christopher and his son to escape. The control module is finally beamed up to the mothership, while Wikus remains on earth, where Christopher has promised to come and find him, to help him return to human form. In the final scene of the film, we see Wikus as an alien, sitting on a waste dump, making a flower out of scrap metal, which he leaves at his wife's front door-- Provided by publisher.
主题词:	Nostalgia in motion pictures.