![]() It’s filled with nifty gizmos like a medical pod that eliminates cancer cells and can regrow damaged organs, bones, and facial hair. There are undoubtedly more costs once you reach the station.) Everything is clean on Elysium and seemingly important decisions about the burnt out planet it orbits are made on this station, since it seems like the president and all other important political officers are located here. (The economics of Elysium are never broken down, but there is constant reference to the price of a ticket. The establishment (the 1%-ers of the year 2154) has built Elysium, a wreath-shaped space station that houses the cultural, political, and social elite. Why? In the future world of “Elysium,”Eearth has become a ruinous wasteland, full of overpopulation, crime, poverty, pollution and unhelpful droids that look nothing like Daft Punk. ![]() Viable Element: A sustained orbital space station that is like the Hamptons in space. If “Elysium” isn’t a social movie now, it might be a crystal ball instead. It’s enough for us to start wondering which of the concepts trotted out in “Elysium” (and there were a bunch) have the possibility of actually coming true. And if it isn’t a social commentary (as the filmmakers claim), at the very least, it is a work of extraordinarily vivid speculative science fiction, one in which Los Angeles looks like an unruly Mexico City (where they shot the film) and robots hassle you on your way to work. ![]() ![]() There are a number of real-life social and political parallels that you can draw between burnt out future of “Elysium” and the slightly less charred world we live in today (everything from the Occupy movement to Blackwater’s involvement in American military actions in the Middle East). While star Matt Damon and writer/director Neill Blomkamp have been repeatedly stating that there is no inherent social message to their new futuristic thriller “ Elysium” ( review here), it’s something of a dubious claim. ![]()
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