The story of "Elysium" is not in violation and sense, and because it is not actually about the birth of a superhero, nor is it the technical dazzling skills of science fiction movies, but borrowing the shell of science fiction, telling about racial discrimination and Realistic topics such as the gap between the rich and the poor. The strong sense of reality dilutes the irrationality of the characters and the story. It's not like the setting of "Tai Chi Xia" to make a courier invisible and become a very high hand.
On one side are the slums where eating and seeing a doctor are problematic, on the other side is the world of peace, BMW, Yinggeyan dance. This feeling is widespread in Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and Johannesburg. It was originally in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou. It exists universally, but is artificially erased. In fact, even in New York, there are slums in Manhattan two more blocks away. It's just that I, Huanghuang, dynasty, disdain to admit that there are poor people in China. Even if there were, they were destroyed by the city management.
The gap between the rich and the poor is not only present, but also in the future, when the earth can immigrate to outer space. Don't you see, the people and passengers who are currently able to travel to outer space, except for astronauts and scientific research members, the rest of the passengers are the world's top billionaires. When these first people to go to outer space believed that space could immigrate, they were also the first group inevitable. The reason why "Elysium Space" is called "Elysium Space" is that outside the earth in the future, the rich have built a huge artificial satellite and made it into a perfect space suitable for human existence, far away from the earth. Facing each other is called a space for the rich to live. However, the earth, due to years of war and long-term accumulation of pollution, is no longer a livable place. Only those poor people live on it and lead a humble and impoverished life.
At the opposite ends of the disparity between the rich and the poor, there is hardly any space that can be broken, because the strict monitoring specified by the rich and the monitoring of the people on the earth make the two kinds of life inside and outside the earth exist in one "bliss" in outer space. Within the unified norms specified by the people in the space. The people on earth cannot control their own destiny. Those who are aloof are remotely controlling their birth, old age, sickness and death.
In this case, it is possible for a small car worker to stand out. Because it is small and not paid attention to, he can effectively use the small gaps to survive, and grow from small to large, and gradually evolve into a super hero.
There is contingency in the development of history. This design looks absurd, but it is actually true. Mandela, who eliminated apartheid, took advantage of the opportunity for a white football team to use the cohesion of nationalism at the national level to fundamentally break the color distinction between whites and blacks. This story is "Success in People". Coincidentally, the starring is also Matt Damon. As a pawn to break apartheid, Damon once again became the winner, with a shot in his hand, crashing the powerful wall of separation. Whether it is the difference in skin color or the distance in space.
As a director born in 1979, South African Neil Blomkamp has fully established his position in the field of science fiction through "The Ninth District" and the current "Elysium". His ability to tell stories, and the implantation of real-world problems, should not be underestimated. Moreover, this design is consistent in the first two works of his director career, which is very rare and has become his unique personal style. I believe that in the next part, this kind of attention to real problems can be more vivid.
As a medium-production film, "Elysium" is also relatively strong to watch, but Chinese people are used to watching large-scale sci-fi movies. They are not so cold with this kind of reality-based film, so it also caused the box office. The passage of time. This point is also worth learning for those who make realistic themes in China.
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