I just watched the movie Elysium. It is not bad at all. The story is good. It has romance, actions, and an important message behind it. A movie setting in a futuristic dystopia, it does make me think of the becoming problem of overpopulation and pollution when I walked out of the theater.
Those weapons used in the movie are so violent and bad ass, so bad ass that they kinda overshine the suit Matt Damon wears. Before the movie, I was expecting some very good actions scenes after he wore the suit, to really show the significant improvement to his physical strength, like may be can jump ten meters high and run super fast with the suit. But there is nothing much about this aspect in the movie. I guess the suit just improve a little his strength and let him able to move again like a normal human. However, the final throwdown in between the good guy and the bad guy really got me. I can say that I could almost feel the punches and the pain during this final scene.
At the end, the protagonist as whom Matt Damon plays, had proved his worth to go to Elysium. Not the phony Elysium in this movie, but the true Elysium in Greek mythology, as Elysium is reserved for the heroic, the righteous.
I want to also point out a funny thing I found in the movie. Those privileged who live in Elysium speak French while the world below, the poor speak Spanish. This is almost a stereotype, as if French is reserved for high-class phony society, and Spanish is for the poor.
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