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25 QUESTIONS

HUFFINGTON
08.11.13

What does Max do for a living? Max
is a laborer of some kind. Which,
considering Max’s past as a convicted criminal, is portrayed as
kind of a success story.

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So why does Max want to get to
Elysium? Max suffers an accident at work that exposes him
to a lethal dose of radiation and is
given only five days to live. His only
chance of survival is to reach Elysium because there is a cure there.

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If someone doesn’t have the money to buy a ticket to Elysium, how
does someone get to Elysium? There
are illegal ways to get there, which
usually involves flying a spaceship
toward Elysium and hoping that
the spaceship doesn’t get shot
down. If the spaceship does make
it, the illegals are usually deported within a few minutes.

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Why does anyone want to go there if they
just get deported immediately? The
hope is to have just enough time to
use the “cure everything machine,”
which seems to be as prevalent in
an Elysium resident’s home as a
toaster would be in ours.

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Does Elysium use a hammer or a
baseball bat to beat you over the

head with modern day symbolism concerning health care and immigration? A
hammer. Probably a smaller one.
Maybe a ball-peen hammer.

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Does Max have to use this illegal
route? Yes, but his route is a
little more complicated. He’s also
fitted with this strange exoskeleton contraption that, a.) helps
him stand because of his radiation
disease, and b.) helps him fight
the police robots.
Is Elysium as good as Neill Blomkamp’s
first film, District 9? No.

Jodie Foster
stars as
Secretary
of Defense
Delacourt.