Elysium
A sci-fi movie
Introduction
Post-apocalyptic movies follow the same basic storyline — a cataclysmic world-changing event, technological advancement alongside dire poverty and desperation, unemployment, classism, oppression, wide social gaps, criminality, social upheaval, civil disobedience, and the eventual rise of the masses against the forces of oppression. Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One; Gary Ross’s The Hunger Games; Neil Burger’s Divergent; Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel and George Miller’s Mad Max Fury Road all make the same predictions about post-apocalyptic earth. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium toes the same line
Elysium is a 2013 science fiction movie written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp starring Matt Damon, Alice Braga, and Jodie Foster as leads. Others include Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, Wagner Moura, and Diego Luna
Synopsis
Earth has become a deplorable broken-down slum basically serving as a labor camp for the rich, politicians, and well-to-do citizens of Elysium — an artificial planet. On earth, unemployment, poverty, disease, crime, and discontent are rife while Elysium boasts a perfect world with med bays that cure all diseases, reconstruct and reverse aging; wealthy citizens, and a functional government and army. Robots and drones patrol and police earth while…
