Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Elysium: Immigration, Racism, Free Enterprise—Hollywood Style! Please Pass the Popcorn and Close Your Mind! Propaganda in Full View!
I could not help myself! I had to post this today! The naiveté of the Hollywood crowd amazes me!
From: http://www.amazon.com/Elysium-UltraViolet-Digital-Copy-Damon/dp/B008JFUN50/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1377031119&sr=1-2
“Elysium (+UltraViolet Digital Copy)
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Product Description
In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
From a specific review:
“By Danusha V. Goska
Format:DVD
‘Elysium’ is A dull sermon about Obamacare and open borders in the guise of a so-so Sci-fi flic. The didactic aspect of the film is so heavy-handed it takes you right out of the movie, out of the willing suspension of disbelief. It doesn’t help that ‘Elysium’ lacks the arresting characters, clever plotting, or wowee special effects that break science fiction films out beyond the genre’s diehard fans.”
I live in a non-futuristic, garbage-strewn slum. We have had liberal, Democratic government for generations. See Detroit. We’ve been hearing the same message for generations, the same message ‘Elysium’ sends: ‘It’s us versus them. We are human; they are cold and cruel. They live lives of perfect bliss. Their health problems are all taken care of. They only way for us to achieve anything is to take what they have.’
This message, even in a grade C sci-fi flick, is toxic. Liberals do not help us, the poor, by telling us that we have nothing of value in ourselves, that it is only through taking what the rich have that we can have lives of value. Poor people do not benefit by discounting what they have and living lives of passive, deluded envy, focusing on what the rich have rather than focusing on their own skills and blessings, and cultivating their own opportunities.
If the Earthlings of ‘Elysium’ succeeded in their goal, it wouldn’t end there. It would end as the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution and others ended: with terror, torture, rape, chaos, and ‘meet the new boss; same as the old boss.’ The real revolution starts when we look within and outside ourselves with love.”
Hollywood at times doesn’t even attempt to hide their pro-socialist advocacy, anti-free enterprise angst. And yet they make million/billions of dollars in that same free enterprise system! If the free enterprise system falls in this nation, which it may with all the propaganda against it, they will end up bemoaning their fate unless they happen to be among the chosen few of the ruling class.
Because they will no longer be needed as “useful fools,” most of them will not! However, they all fantasize that they will be! Will they be in for a shock! Talk about trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!