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(I actually liked "Elysium".)
Life and Machines at the Bottom of the Pit
by KIM NICOLINI
Okay, I am ready to put myself on the line and be one of the few people
who have dared to give Neil Blomkamp’s Chappie (2015) a favorable
review. Quite frankly, I loved the movie, and I really feel no need to
apologize for my enthusiasm. Sure, there are many reasons why certain
people feel obliged to be Blomkamp Haters. His second film Elysium
(2013) was a complete bomb compared to his groundbreaking first film
District 9 (2009). Still, both films are dystopian visions of
contemporary economics and expose the ever growing chasm between the
Haves and Have Nots. The films focus out outsiders in general and put
class before race, and as such they provide universal messages about the
marginalized in an economic System that continues to shove the large
majority of people into impoverished to the fringes while the few and
the privileged live high on the hog. I have no complaints about either
of the films from an ideological standpoint, even if the second as a
disappointment.
full:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/life-and-machines-at-the-bottom-of-the-pit/
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