10 Insane Things In Massive Movies (That Everyone Just Ignores)

Elysium is a not so subtle allegory for the enormous wealth divide between ourselves in the developed world, and those left behind in the developing world. It may lack some of the subtlety and polish of Blomkamp's first film District 9, but it is nonetheless an effective demonstration of our indifference to inequality.

You sympathise with and support Max De Costa's struggle and you vilify Delacourt's decision to attack and deport refugrees, even as our own world runs a similar course. The hypocrisy within our society and our indifference towards a solution is laid bare, at least until the ending. Dying to grant everyone on Earth citizenship to Elysium, medical shuttles immediately begin flying to Earth to treat everyone's illnesses.

The problem is, although we absolutely can do more to help the developing world, we don't have the solutions to their problems sitting unused in a warehouse. It is far more complicated than that, and by ending it in this way Blomkamp trivialises the scope of the issue within his own world. The people of Elysium come off not as aloof and greedy as parallels our own world, but psychotically malicious and dangerously short sighted.

Instead of displaying the many complex and powerful obstacles the developing world is facing, Blomkamp seems to indicate the entire worlds issues can be solved by the flip of a switch.