Elysium (film)

Elysium is an American science fiction film with socially critical intent of Neill Blomkamp from the year 2013, which had its premiere in Los Angeles on August 7, 2013.

Action

In 2154, there are two classes of people: a small layer of privileged and super-rich on the space station Elysium ( available in Latin for " island of the blessed ", see Elysion ), and the mass of humanity on the run-down and overpopulated Earth, the only serves as a production facility.

Max Da Costa is a former orphan boy who has a long criminal record. A brutal police patrol robot breaks him because of a trivial ironic remark during a routine inspection the arm. In the hospital he meets his childhood sweetheart Frey again, who is now a nurse. In the armaments factory where he manufactures robot parts, it is contaminated with radiation. He has to live only five more days. The rich factory owner John Carlyle can choose whether to give him tablets that Da Costa provisionally bring back to his feet and throws him out.

In Elysium there are medical devices that can cure any disease and also give the rich inhabitants of Elysium almost immortality. Also Da Costa could be cured in Elysium. Da Costa turns to the rebels and criminals Spider, which regularly more or less successfully breaks through the protective mechanisms of Elysium and sick as smuggling earthlings access to Elysium allows: this then try to enter one of the villas and to the local units themselves heal. In such a flight to Elysium but two of Spiders spacecraft fired from an irregular mercenary named Kruger, who on behalf of unscrupulous defense minister Elysium, Delacourt, works. Numerous people will be killed. The President Patel dislike this too much sensational decision of the Minister, which in turn put in anger.

Spider calls meanwhile Da Costa in return for a flight to Elysium the theft of data from the brain of a privileged to get to the secret information. Da Costa agrees and gets a brain implant and cyborg enhancements to cache the data, and enhance its power. Da Costa decides to invade John Carlyle and steal its data. The attack succeeds, Carlyle dies and the data from the brain are in Da Costa dubbed brain.

First, however, Carlyle had written a restart program for the operation of Elysium for Delacourt, with the help of which the Minister now wants to stage a coup for President. In return, got Carlyle plug end into trouble company an exclusive contract for defense equipment from her. Carlyle had saved the coup program to his safety via an interface into his brain.

Spider recognizes the possibilities of the Restart program in the copy of Da Costa. In the attack on Carlyle Da Costa was injured, he seeks to Frey. It supplies the wound and asks him for a flight to Elysium for their daughter suffering from leukemia, but Da Costa leaves them in order not to jeopardize. Delacourt leaves Da Costa pursue because of the explosive nature of the stolen data and imposed a ban on flights over Los Angeles. Kruger takes Frey and her daughter hostage and pursued Da Costa. This recognizes that he has only been on a ship under the command of Elysium a chance in time to reach one of the medical treatment devices. It can be captivated by the mercenaries and brought along with Frey and her daughter to Elysium. On the road caused Da Costa now there chased the crash of the spaceship on Elysium and is used by Delacourt and Kruger's mercenaries. Both want to use the restart of the space station to order himself to gain power over them. Therefore Kruger eventually kills Delacourt. When attempting to also turn off Da Costa, he is subject to this in a duel and dies.

Spider, which is now reached with a private spaceship Elysium, transfers the data from Da Costa head in the space station and performs the reset. He uses all earthlings as a citizen of Elysium. When transferring Since dies Costa, as Carlyle had the data protected. A reset Frey can use the medical treatment device for her daughter, as this is now considered a citizen of Elysium.

The robot soldiers will no longer attack even Spider, because it is not allowed to take action against citizens Elysium. The computer system determines that a large amount of new citizens Elysium needs medical help, so start immediately supply ships with medical treatment equipment to the earth.

Background

" The starting point was a personal experience: A few years ago I 'm with a friend to Tijuana, just behind the Mexican border, down. We arrived in the evening, have we bought a few bottles of beer, when suddenly two policemen stormed induce, lay down in handcuffs, packed in their patrol car and drove out of the city. They claimed that it is forbidden to drink alcohol in public. We had to pay them almost $ 1,000. They took the money and threw us out of the car. As we stood in the middle of the night in the slums of Tijuana and had to walk two hours back to the city through this quite uncomfortable area. Before the huts bathed in fire, dogs were roaming around, people were staring at us and in the background of this whole scene poverty rose from floodlights illuminated the huge U.S. border wall, patrolled the helicopter along. It looked like a science fiction movie. This image of the Mexican slums and the ramparts of the American welfare society has never left me. The wall between the U.S. and Mexico is a symbol of the growing gap between rich and poor, the Elysium further thinking in a science fiction setting. "

In the space station Elysium is a so-called Stanford Torus - a principle which was actually conceived in 1975 at Stanford University as part of a NASA program. The space station in the movie is very similar to the former concept drawings.

In the year 2013 988.801 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, bringing the film finished in 35th place of the most popular films of the year.

Reviews

" Blomkamp has clearly turned a total of satire, with exaggerated figures, some absurd exaggerations and hearty black and white painting. The problem is only that he negotiated all in one pretty quickly saw through a classic epic entertainment format. The fact that the story is headed for a grand happy ending, you know early, but how these ad hoc pacification compatible with the explosive basic issues remains to be seen. "

"Here the gap between rich and poor has become so wide and unbridgeable like a trip through space. This makes " Elysium " for linksliberalsten summer blockbuster season - and established the first 33 -year-old director Christopher Nolan next to the British as one of the few auteurs of the current action cinema ".

"Even in Elysium, it now goes back [ to District 9] to exclusion, distributive justice and class struggle. It is a tight left, unfortunately always strikingly naive worded message - which is the special attraction of this film, a testosterone - and adrenaline- driven blockbuster transported. This brings the "left " and "right " film preferences together. In the U.S. this weekend Elysium led the movie charts. "

" Elysium is a smart science fiction film whose narrative draws from the evil, the anti-utopian view of the here, the now, the present. And a more impressive film image for the widening gap between rich and poor as these rotating around the earth gated community is hardly imaginable. "

"Even if Elysium unlike Blomkamp's multi-layered debut film District 9 content remains on the surface, atmosphere, look and action on a very high level are. "

2013 in film Screenplay Simon Kinberg Film score Julian Clarke Lee Smith (editor) Sharlto Copley Social criticism Stanford-Torus Deutschlandfunk
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