{"id":386,"date":"2013-10-28T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T05:11:13","slug":"review-elysium-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/28\/review-elysium-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Elysium (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/elysium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-387 \" alt=\"elysium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/elysium-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damon all tech&#8217;ed up to even the score..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A rather interesting piece of Science Fiction, rather timely in terms of the current political feud in America over Obama-care.<\/p>\n<p>Director Neill Blomkamp (with the help of Matt Damon and Jodie Foster) paint a picture of a bleak future where hi-tech medicine is only available to the very wealthy who live on a space station orbiting the earth. The earth itself is a complete dump (looks rather like Mexico not surprisingly) with mass overpopulation and problems galore. The space station <em>Elysium<\/em> is a paradise of nice tidy houses and beautiful people.<\/p>\n<p>I found some interesting parallels in this film to <em>Sleep Dealer<\/em>, with a working underclass that supports a smaller wealthy one. Of course the obvious comparison is <em>Metropolis<\/em>, but then how can a film be bad if it is anything like <em>Metropolis<\/em>! I won&#8217;t spoil it for you anymore, definitely worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather interesting piece of Science Fiction, rather timely in terms of the current political feud in America over Obama-care. Director Neill Blomkamp (with the help of Matt Damon and Jodie Foster) paint a picture of a bleak future where hi-tech medicine is only available to the very wealthy who live on a space station &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/10\/28\/review-elysium-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Elysium (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}