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Elysium, from director/writer Neill Blomkamp (District 9), takes place in 2154. Earth is overpopulated, making for an impoverished, third world planet. As overcrowding takes its toll with disease and other aspects, the wealthy got together and created the space station Elysium to get away from it all.
Elysium has all the finest things that money can buy, including medical technology. It’s perfection. On Earth people struggle to survive from day to day.
We’re given an in-depth introduction to Max (Matt Damon), from when he was a child in an orphanage to his adult days, where he’s a parolee trying to go clean in this harsh, automated world. During the intro, we also meet Frey (Alice Braga). Frey is Max’s good friend, but obviously she went in a professional direction while Max went the car thief direction and got busted for it.
Now he’s clean, letting his probation time run down while working a thankless job in a police robot factory. Of all places.
But something goes horribly wrong and Max finds himself in need of the medical technology on Elysium. This leads him to hooking back up with some old “professional” peers to help him get up to the infamous space station and doing a job for them.
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Elysium, from director/writer Neill Blomkamp (District 9), takes place in 2154. Earth is overpopulated, making for an impoverished, third world planet. As overcrowding takes its toll with disease and other aspects, the wealthy got together and created the space station Elysium to get away from it all.
We’re given an in-depth introduction to Max (Matt Damon), from when he was a child in an orphanage to his adult days, where he’s a parolee trying to go clean in this harsh, automated world. During the intro, we also meet Frey (Alice Braga). Frey is Max’s good friend, but obviously she went in a professional direction while Max went the car thief direction and got busted for it.
But something goes horribly wrong and Max finds himself in need of the medical technology on Elysium. This leads him to hooking back up with some old “professional” peers to help him get up to the infamous space station and doing a job for them.
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