Has anyone seen the movie Elysium yet?

[Wahawahwah]

Just saw it today on cable.
Fantastic movie.

Kind of a metaphor for the times we live in.

Depressing, but inspiring.

 

[CombatDiet]

The reality of our present trajectory isn't that the masses are going to be kept in poverty and misery. Rather the masses are going to be kept fat, happy and distracted, because what the economy needs is not more labor, but more consumers. A good dystopic view of the future would have the majority of people existing as debt slaves instead of wage slaves.

What are the consequences of this view of economics in a society? Would those who innovate and maintain the productive resources in a society rationalize themselves into codependents who must take care of the "debt slaves."

What I mean is that you have these civilizations with amazing advanced technologies and for some reason, they hoard these technologies and force the masses to live in squalor. Why?

 

[malc]

It's a silly movie that requires a lot of willing suspension of disbelief, but it is ultimately depressing with a few fun bits here and there. I was wondering why there were south africans inside the movie.

 

[Screwston]

I liked it. Entertaining and a decent popcorn flick.

 

[Fitzgerald]

Saw it a few days ago. I liked the effects. Some of the plot points were weak. I was drunk, so I got pretty angry at the abusive droid cops, and felt engaged with it from an emotional standpoint. Over all, the movie felt like a veiled Messiah story (guy gets a death sentence, sacrifices his life so that everyone can get the ticket to heaven he has).

 

[Sawyer]

I look forward to Elysium 2, where the Earth population has turned Elysium into a shit hole and in a brand new social justice rage seek to enter the new elite-founded space colony just a few miles away.

 

[Parlay44]

I look forward to Elysium 2, where the Earth population has turned Elysium into a shit hole and in a brand new social justice rage seek to enter the new elite-founded space colony just a few miles away.

The sequel to Elysium has already been released. It's called Wall-E.

After they've eradicated all diseases on Earth with the medi-bays. People are free to eat and get as fat as they want.

Wall-E. If you haven’t watched it, it’s about a world that is governed by a megacorporation called Buy’N’Large, causing mass consumerism and completely trashing the Earth, forcing the humans to go on a 700 year cruise in space as the Wall-E machines clean up their mess. The human race is completely reliant on technology to do all the work for them aboard the spaceship. The result: morbid obesity.