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Ohiogal

(32,191 posts) Sat Jan 12, 2019, 08:58 PM Jan 2019

Has anyone here seen the movie "Elysium" with Jodie Foster?

Just watched this movie this afternoon. A futuristic story that takes place in the year 2154, where the Earth is left in environmental ruins. The ultra wealthy people have all escaped to live a charmed life in a luxurious satellite habitat, while the poor people who are left behind must eke out a hardscrabble life on the ruined Earth. Takes on issues such as overpopulation, inadequate health care, social justice, worker exploitation, and social class disparity.

Really makes you think! I could see this happening if we continue to be ruled by Republicans.

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Has anyone here seen the movie "Elysium" with Jodie Foster? (Original Post) Ohiogal Jan 2019 OP

I saw it. I thought it was very well done. Aristus Jan 2019 #1

I could just totally see that happening Ohiogal Jan 2019 #2

Yup...although I always thought of it as "Elysium" with Matt Damon. shanny Jan 2019 #3

Kinda Like Intetstallar PaulX2 Jan 2019 #4

Good film. It is by the same director who did "District 9." FSogol Jan 2019 #5

It's a memorable movie for me. That's one of my criteria... LAS14 Jan 2019 #6

"Night of the Lepus" was memorable, but that wasn't a good thing in this case. FSogol Jan 2019 #7

Except for the fact that our local fascists are anti-science... The Blue Flower Jan 2019 #8

Aristus

(66,529 posts)

1. I saw it. I thought it was very well done.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 09:02 PM

Jan 2019

And the topical issues were developed in a believable manner.

Ohiogal

(32,191 posts)

2. I could just totally see that happening

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 09:10 PM

Jan 2019

if right wing policies continue unabated here. Sorta scary to think about.

shanny

(6,709 posts)

3. Yup...although I always thought of it as "Elysium" with Matt Damon.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 09:11 PM

Jan 2019

It is well done, and a plausible future under oligarchic rule, except I think the climate catastrophe is coming sooner and worse than it depicts. I think--given our current path--it will not only destroy societies but also the human race. Maybe even life on the planet.

PaulX2

(2,032 posts)

4. Kinda Like Intetstallar

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 09:25 PM

Jan 2019

We trashed our planet.

FSogol

(45,591 posts)

5. Good film. It is by the same director who did "District 9."

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 10:08 PM

Jan 2019

I recommend it if you haven't seen it already.

Another good one in a similar vein is the film, "Moon."

LAS14

(13,792 posts)

6. It's a memorable movie for me. That's one of my criteria...

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 10:13 PM

Jan 2019

... for a good movie. For instance, I have a vivid memory of African Queen which I saw when I was in elementary school.

FSogol

(45,591 posts)

7. "Night of the Lepus" was memorable, but that wasn't a good thing in this case.

Reply to LAS14 (Reply #6)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 08:13 AM

Jan 2019

The Blue Flower

(5,451 posts)

8. Except for the fact that our local fascists are anti-science...

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 09:59 AM

Jan 2019

No way are we going to get off the planet in time for its collapse. I also am one who liked the way the ideas were developed, especially about social and economic inequity.

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