Elysium
Posted by Itheliving 12 years, 2 months ago to Movies
Elysium / Rated R for violence, bad language, drug usage and garden parties.
Elysium is a message movie. It has two messages. It might have more but I only counted 2. It also has 2 big stars. They are Jodie Foster and Matt Damon. It also features Sharlto Copley in an important role. He was the main star in writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s Oscar nominated District 9 (2009). This time Sharlto plays an evil, bad guy who has some bad luck when a hand grenade goes off about 6 inches from his face. This slows him down for a few minutes.
Elysium is a lot like Les Miserables (2012) but with no singing. It is about a time in the future, 2154, when there are only two classes of people. Those who live on Elysium, a space station circling the earth, and those who are on earth. Elysium is a virtual paradise where everyone goes to parties and swim in beautiful pools while their plate of hors d’ ouevres and champagne are being brought out from their mansions. Earth is not doing so well. Overpopulated, dirty, out of time and without hope. On Elysium medical care is done by laying in a machine that diagnoses any illness or disease and immediately cures it by “reatomizing” you in just a few seconds. Earth has hospitals but they are out of medicine and there are only a couple of band aids that everyone shares. Your best chance, if you are sick, is to find what may be a clean patch of dirt, eat it and hope you get better.
Matt D. plays a skilled laborer who gets radiated in an industrial accident and has only a few days to live. He gets a bionic super arm and decides to help a few friends to get to Elysium and get in the special machines to get fixed up. Unfortunately he must fight off robots, drones and the above mentioned Sharlto Copley. Then sneak onto a shuttle, make it to Elysium without being shot to pieces by the director of security, Jodie Foster. Jodie is not happy as she had to leave a wedding party to kill him.
The film is fairly evenly split by time on Elysium, the pretty scenes, and time on earth in Los Angeles, which looks like the biggest garbage dump in history. Locations in Mexico and Canada stand in for L.A. and Elysium. Not hard to tell which was which.
Lots of fighting ensue and dejavu scenes from other films of the genre pop up every few minutes. Eventually when the end nears, a big event occurs and we find out the movie’s message’s, views on medical care and immigration. I learned a lot. Here’s a message for you. Wait for Elysium free TV.
Rated 2.3 out of 4.0 reasons that the reatomizing idea looks pretty good.
Elysium is a message movie. It has two messages. It might have more but I only counted 2. It also has 2 big stars. They are Jodie Foster and Matt Damon. It also features Sharlto Copley in an important role. He was the main star in writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s Oscar nominated District 9 (2009). This time Sharlto plays an evil, bad guy who has some bad luck when a hand grenade goes off about 6 inches from his face. This slows him down for a few minutes.
Elysium is a lot like Les Miserables (2012) but with no singing. It is about a time in the future, 2154, when there are only two classes of people. Those who live on Elysium, a space station circling the earth, and those who are on earth. Elysium is a virtual paradise where everyone goes to parties and swim in beautiful pools while their plate of hors d’ ouevres and champagne are being brought out from their mansions. Earth is not doing so well. Overpopulated, dirty, out of time and without hope. On Elysium medical care is done by laying in a machine that diagnoses any illness or disease and immediately cures it by “reatomizing” you in just a few seconds. Earth has hospitals but they are out of medicine and there are only a couple of band aids that everyone shares. Your best chance, if you are sick, is to find what may be a clean patch of dirt, eat it and hope you get better.
Matt D. plays a skilled laborer who gets radiated in an industrial accident and has only a few days to live. He gets a bionic super arm and decides to help a few friends to get to Elysium and get in the special machines to get fixed up. Unfortunately he must fight off robots, drones and the above mentioned Sharlto Copley. Then sneak onto a shuttle, make it to Elysium without being shot to pieces by the director of security, Jodie Foster. Jodie is not happy as she had to leave a wedding party to kill him.
The film is fairly evenly split by time on Elysium, the pretty scenes, and time on earth in Los Angeles, which looks like the biggest garbage dump in history. Locations in Mexico and Canada stand in for L.A. and Elysium. Not hard to tell which was which.
Lots of fighting ensue and dejavu scenes from other films of the genre pop up every few minutes. Eventually when the end nears, a big event occurs and we find out the movie’s message’s, views on medical care and immigration. I learned a lot. Here’s a message for you. Wait for Elysium free TV.
Rated 2.3 out of 4.0 reasons that the reatomizing idea looks pretty good.
**FYI SPOILER**
I love Jodie Foster, but her character was one dimensional and disappointing. To me this was her worst role yet. I felt very uncomfortable because all the rich people were white, except for their president who seemed to be Indian. All the people left on earth were brown, except for Matt Damon. So the message to me was, "White people are evil, brown people are helpless" It all came off pretty racist to me. Plus the plot was stupid. So apparently the heartless rich white people have the technology and resources to heal all the poor people on Earth, but they don't because they have programmed some way so that only citizens of Elysium can get medical care. But in the end, all it takes is some reprogramming and *poof* everyone gets the care they need by sitting in a tanning bed for 30 seconds. This makes me think that the white people on Elysium were just playing some cruel joke on the brown people on earth for no apparent reason. It really doesn't make sense. All the earth people sit around and commit crimes, kill each other, breed like rabbits, and are just plain losers. Some of them work, but they are looked down upon by their peers. Apparently without the rich people they are completely helpless and are completely dependent on some (also inexplicably evil) billionaire for the few jobs there are on Earth. So apparently because people are poor that means that they, of course, are completely unable to do anything good for their own society because it is much easier to sit and complain those white people who left, rather than do anything good for themselves. In the end, all of the "problems" are solved through violence and intellectual theft. (They literally suck all the knowledge out of the rich guy's brains) The evil rich guy is so evil that he even built his OWN company from the ground up! On top of the stupid plot, the movie was filled with stupid pointless violence and explosions. The only thing this film managed to do for me was inadvertently boost my testosterone level for about 90 minutes, although that doesn't necessarily make me happy since I am a woman.
The end.