Elysium - the movie

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Elysium is a movie of utopian and dystopian countries. It retold about the future of earth where everything was crumbled and rubbles. No greenery, no beautiful places with hungry, dirty, sick and unfortunate people flocking around of what used to be the evidence of the human' advancement. While these 'unwanted' people eyeing the sparkling place in the sky, the people of Elysium lived in perfect peace and harmony. No sickness, no starved people, not even an ugliness was exist in Elysium, unless the feeling of greed and selfishness.

Max, an orphaned boy who was raised together with Frey, was used to be a low class recidivist. But he turned over a new page and filled his dreadful day by working a honest low-pay-with-long-shift job at the only factory on the earth,the Armadyne Corporation. Accidentally, Max was exposed to lethal level of radiation and was dismissed from the factory with several pills to keep him functioning until the end of his last 5 days.

Unwilling to succumb into his fate, Max contacted Spider, sorta mafia and made a deal which would illegally smuggle Max into Elysium to use the med-bed to cure his radiation. As a compensation, Max agreed to help Spider steal classified information from Elysium' people. Their target was the head of Armadyne Corporation, Carlyle which unknown to them, just agreed with Jessica Delacourt, a high level Elysium' minister to coup the current Elysium' goverment under President Patek. Carlyle just finished written a new set of program which will reboot the whole system of Elysium.

So when Max stole the 'brain' of Carlyle, Delacourt announced a full scale man-hunt using the crazy mercenary, Kruger. When Max realized the price of information stolen by him which was stored in his head, Max decided to use the program to redefine the classification of Elysium citizenship. Though he knew by activating the program in his head would bring immediate death to him, at the end, Max realized the meaning of his life...the sole reason of his living being and the beauty of the place called earth.

Overall I like the movie a lot, especially seeing it on an Imax screen. The Elysium was beautifully constructed and earth was dramatically ruined. However, the ending was too much of drama (imho) when basically the root issue between earth and elysium could probably be simply solved by putting few med-beds on earth. Anyway, I am wondering how close the prediction of Elysium of the future of our dear planet...maybe I should start saving up my share for Elysium :-)