Very. Hollywood, which despite the claims of conservatives shies away from overtly liberal movies, has poured $100 million into the production of a film that has been called by those who have seen it "a futuristic version of Occupy Wall Street."
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/elysium-science-fiction-tricked-hollywo\ od-into-making-the-years-most-radical-film <http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/elysium-science-fiction-tricked-hollyw\ ood-into-making-the-years-most-radical-film> I look forward to seeing it. Neil Blomkamp's previous movie "District 9" was one of the best scifi movies I've ever seen, and for the same reason. It portrays things that are *already going on around us* (in that film, rounding up "aliens" and herding them into camps to await deportation, which has happened in the UK and other countries; in this film, the disparity of health care available to the 1% vs. that available to the 99%), and makes it -- if anything -- *more believable* by setting it in a by-definition-unbelievable futuristic setting. This is what great science fiction has been doing since its invention. H.G. Wells wrote about social injustice and inequity that was happening *in his own time*, but made it palatable to the masses by setting it in the future. So did Jonathan Swift, in "Gulliver's Travels." T'would seem that Neil Blomkamp is following in the footsteps of the masters. And good for him. His film is expected to be #1 at the box office this week. Not bad for a leftist, radical movie.
