Elysium

[Massterloo]

Well, I saw it. After an hour I thought it was good even though it seemed a little long (plot, and character development). But I rather have that than the opposite. Many rather not. I didn't even mind the obvious social commentary about the U.S., and Mexican immigrants. Then there was the Fore shadowing about which characters were going to live, and die. Huge fore shadowing...ok, it was like a freight train falling on you type of fore shadowing. But the ride there, was ->good.
Not great, just good.



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I think what bothered me in the hour after the movie subconsciously, then what hit me a day later was how they over simplified the ending. And how if they just had a few of the Elysium cure all booths on each continent it would eliminate the whole plot of the movie. The rich would just charge people the same outrageous amount of money that the desperate pay for the deadly chance to land successfully on Elysium, and invade someone's home. At no point do they show anyone die, or suffer from heat, cold, or thirst...just the lack of the magic healing booths.

The end of the movie is everyone becomes a citizen of Elysium, and the robots sense a medical need on Earth. So now dozens of shuttles - full of spare healing booths (they just had laying around) are sent to Earth, and everyone starts getting healed. Everyone is happy. Earth is still overcrowded, with no jobs, and Elysium is still up there, separate, but equal than those on Earth.

the end.