8 ways to look at Elysium
1. It’s about a group of poor people trying to get into Forbes Park.
2. It’s a fairy tale, Occupy Elysium, in which the 99 percent rise up against the 1 percent.
3. It’s a simplistic but still engaging treatise on the class struggle, with technology as the ultimate equalizer.
4. It is a cautionary tale about throwing big Hollywood money at a plucky outsider (Neill Blomkamp, who made District 9) and throwing everything on the screen in an effort to make USD100 million on opening weekend.
5. It is a heartening tale of a filmmaker who gets away with his socio-political agenda in a Hollywood setting.
6. It is a drama of immigration in which citizenship is the solution to most problems. This drama is expressed as a battle of accents: Jodie Foster’s French and Sharlto Copley’s South African vs. Matt Damon’s American and Diego Luna and Wagner Moura’s Latino.
7. It’s Matt Damon saving the world, and we have no problem with that.
8. It is a vision of a terrifying future in which sarcasm is punishable by law. We would last 5 minutes in that place.
Verdict: Watch.
September 9th, 2013 at 04:20
It wasn’t that good. Sineng Pambansa is still on.
September 9th, 2013 at 11:56
In which dimension? In this one, Sineng Pambansa starts on Wednesday.
September 10th, 2013 at 02:59
In 2154, Diego Luna is grimy and haggardo versoza…
I’d still hit that. :)))
September 10th, 2013 at 13:20
f878: Did you see Diego in Milk? He looked like Linda Evans from Dynasty.