Mini review of Elysium

As the title states this is just a mini review not intended to reveal too much, just to give you a little taste and get you interested.

Went to see Elysium all by my lonesome, not a problem. I really loved this movie. After the flotsam and general nothingness of summer films it's great to encounter a movie with breadth and vision one which isn't scared to embrace its politics. The ugly disturbing dystopian future painted in the film with empathy and accuracy doesn't seem all that far off although the film is set in the year 2100 towards the middle portion of it. The earth has been thoroughly depleted, there are too many billions of us and those who can (mostly white and the ultra rich) have fled to a paradise of their own making where life is easy, so easy in fact that we spend very little time there. It's strange that what powers the film Elysium is not Elysium itself that's just something which must be overcome no...the gritty human stuff is still happening on earth that's where the real drama is where loss of hope exists. for what can one say about an environment where everybody is beautiful, you can change your appearance if you don't like it,lawns are green and manicured,lots of pools, diseases have been cured, in short the only thing bothersome is those pesky earthlings still needed to make the robots which will be used to police them, yes the supreme irony of it all. OK. don't want to reveal too much more just this: it's powered by a wonderful Everyman turned reluctant hero Matt Damon, well worth a look if you like movies with substance.