Elysium explores the gap between the rich and poor
By Alexandra Heilbron on August 8, 2013 | 1 Comment
Elysium has a timely theme – the multi-city Occupy movement, in which protestors stood up against social and economic inequality, is still fresh in most people’s minds.
In the movie, the gap between rich and poor has widened so far that they don’t even live on the same planet. A small number of wealthy humans live in a utopian world called Elysium, on an orbital space station. There’s no sickness—they have machines that scan for disease and remove it if anything is found. Their world is beautiful, peaceful and they live the life of the privileged. It’s also the most heavily guarded place in the universe.
Meanwhile, the poor struggle to survive on an overpopulated, crime-ridden, rubble-covered Earth. The people who live there would do anything to get to Elysium. Matt Damon plays a man who’s dying and is desperate to get to the space station to obtain health care, while Jodie Foster plays a politician who wants to keep Elysium’s habitat pure and save it, as the actress stated in a press conference, “from those pesky earthlings.”
Damon says, “It certainly has a lot of relevance. Funnily enough, the whole terminology of the 99 per cent and the 1 per cent wasn’t even there when we started.” However, Elysium isn’t all doom and gloom. Damon assures, “I think first and foremost, it will be really entertaining.” Elysium opens this Friday, August 9, 2013. ~Alexandra Heilbron
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