The Completely Pointless Thread II

[TenFour]

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I went to see elysium last night, i was one big ass liberal pandering fucking bullshit movie, i got all the subliminals and i almost walked the fuck out about 3/4 of the way through the movie.

1) People only commit crimes because they are poor and underprivileged
2) all rich people are evil
3) free healthcare for everyone

yeah fuck that movie.

You have misunderstood the genius that is Blomkamp. The movie itself is set in a future where open borders and a flood of immigration have reduced America to one vast third world shithole, while the people who run things have made tons of money off the whole venture and now live up in gated communities away from the mess of the unwashed.

Basically is it a movie on what will happen when America reaches such a point of open borders and degradation, and the consequences that will be had for those who, while engineering things thus for some supposed ideal, still shut themselves off from it to preserve their own social/economic class.

Blomkamp is anything but a left winger.

Critics either understand and do not like the movie, or don't understand it all so they foist their own critiques and understanding of it on others and the movie itself.

Similarly, Elysium is another Malthusian tale about open borders, set in a dystopian 2154. By then, Los Angeles has been completely overrun by Mexicans, who have turned it into an endless, dusty slum that looks remarkably like urban Mexico today. (Blomkamp filmed for four months in Mexico City.)

The auteur explains that he is:

…painting this realistic image of a future Earth…which meant the borders being erased entirely and having this fluid population group that basically moves from Chile all the way up to Canada. It just flows, because it can.…The numbers of people that are Latin are going to overwhelm the numbers of people that aren’t.

The rich, continuing to get richer from the collapse of the borders, have decamped for a gated community in the sky, recreating Beverly Hills in a delicate space station that rotates gently to produce gravity along its inner rim.

“The notion that art is about equality and niceness is just a cover story put out by artists to keep us poor schlumps from realizing what they are up to.”

Blomkamp, a gun-loving Afrikaner whose movies are based around his fear that the rapid breeding of Third Worlders threatens to bring down civilization, says Elysium originated in a disastrous visit to Mexico in 2005. While shooting a Nike commercial in lovely San Diego, the Boer crossed the border one evening to see Tijuana, where he was abducted by corrupt Mexican cops who shook him down for $900 in return for not killing him.

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Blomkamp, however, is unusual in that he barely tries to hide his worldview. So the NLDs just make up for him a worldview more acceptable to themselves. In dumbed-down 21st-century America, who will notice?

http://takimag.com/article/elysium_neill...z2d1m7U9wX

ya know he's got a hell of a point....