Elysium (2013)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Elysium |
| Original title | Elysium |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , French , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Neill Blomkamp |
| script | Neill Blomkamp |
| production | Neill Blomkamp, Bill Block , Simon Kinberg |
| music | Ryan Amon |
| camera | Trent Opaloch |
| cut |
Julian Clarke , Lee Smith |
| occupation | |
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Elysium is a socially critical American science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp from 2013 , which was released in German cinemas on August 15, 2013.
action
In the year 2154 there are two classes of people: A small layer of the privileged and the super-rich on the space station Elysium (Latinized from the ancient Greek Elysion for "island of the blessed") and the mass of humanity on the worn and overpopulated earth , which is only used as a production facility serves.
The production worker Max Da Costa, who grew up as an orphan , now has a long criminal record . A brutal robot police patrol breaks his arm because of a trivial ironic remark during a routine check. In the hospital he meets his childhood sweetheart Frey, who is now a nurse. In the armaments factory , in which he manufactures robot parts, he is supposed to fix an incident and is exposed to radioactive contamination. He only has five days to live. The wealthy factory owner John Carlyle then gives him pills that temporarily get Da Costa back on his feet and throws him out.
Medical devices exist on Elysium that can cure any disease and also give the wealthy people of Elysium near immortality. Da Costa could also be healed on Elysium. Da Costa turns to the rebel and criminal Spider, who regularly more or less successfully breaks the protective mechanisms of Elysium and, as a smuggler, enables sick people on earth to gain access to Elysium. They then try to break into one of the villas and heal themselves with the devices there. On one such flight to Elysium, two of Spider's spaceships are shot down by a mercenary named Kruger who works on behalf of the unscrupulous Elysium Secretary of Defense, Delacourt. Dozens of people are killed in the process. President Patel disapproves of this too sensational decision by the minister, which in turn angered her.
Meanwhile, Spider demands that Da Costa steal data from the brain of a privileged person in return for a flight to Elysium in order to get his secret information. Da Costa agrees and receives a brain implant and cyborg extensions in the form of an exoskeleton to temporarily store the data and increase his strength. Da Costa decides to ambush John Carlyle and steal his data. The attack succeeds, Carlyle is injured and dies after the data from his brain has been copied into Da Costa's.
Before that, however, Carlyle had written a restart program for Delacourt for the operation of Elysium, with the help of which the minister wants to put her way to president. In return, Carlyle's troubled company received an exclusive defense contract from her. Carlyle had the coup program stored in his brain via an interface for his safety.
Spider recognizes the possibilities of the restart program in the copy of Da Costa. In the attack on Carlyle, Da Costa was injured and he seeks Frey. She tends the wound and asks him to take a flight to Elysium for her daughter Matilda, who has leukemia, but Da Costa leaves her so as not to endanger her. Delacourt has Da Costa prosecuted because of the explosiveness of the stolen data and imposes a flight ban over Los Angeles. Kruger takes Frey and Matilda hostage and pursues Da Costa. He realizes that he only has a chance to get to one of the medical treatment devices on time on a ship under Elysium's orders. He lets himself be captured by the mercenaries and is taken to Elysium with Frey and Matilda. Da Costa crash-lands the spaceship on Elysium and is now being hunted by Delacourt and Kruger's group. Both want to use the restart of the space station to gain power over them themselves. That's why Kruger kills Delacourt. When trying to eliminate Da Costa too, he is defeated in a duel and dies.
Spider, who has meanwhile reached Elysium with his own spaceship, transfers the data from Da Costa's head to the space station and carries out the reset. He uses all earth citizens as citizens of Elysium. Da Costa dies during the transfer because Carlyle protected the data. The reset allows Frey to use the medical treatment device for her daughter Matilda, who is now considered a citizen of Elysium.
The robot soldiers no longer attack Spider because they are not allowed to take action against citizens of Elysium. The computer system detects that a large number of the new citizens of Elysium are in need of medical assistance, so supply ships with medical treatment equipment start immediately to Earth.
background
“The starting point was a personal experience: a few years ago I went to Tijuana with a friend , right across the Mexican border. We arrived in the evening, bought a couple of bottles of beer, when suddenly two policemen stormed in, handcuffed us, packed us into their patrol car and drove out of town. They claimed that it was forbidden to drink alcohol in public. We had to pay them nearly $ 1,000. They took the money and threw us out of the car. There we stood in the middle of the night in the slums of Tijuana and had to walk two hours through this rather uncomfortable area back to the city. Fires were burning everywhere in front of the huts, dogs were straying around, people were staring at us and in the background of this whole poverty scene rose the huge US border wall, illuminated by a floodlight system, along which helicopters were patrolling. It looked like a science fiction movie. This image of the Mexican slums and the protective wall of the American affluent society has never left me. The wall between the USA and Mexico is a symbol of the growing discrepancy between rich and poor that Elysium is thinking further in a science fiction setting. "
The Elysium space station is a so-called Stanford torus - a principle that was actually devised in 1975 as part of a NASA program at Stanford University . The space station in the film is very similar to the concept drawings of the time.
In 2013, 988,801 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film the 35th place among the most visited films of the year.
Reviews
“Overall, Blomkamp has clearly shot a satire, with exaggerated figures, sometimes absurd exaggerations and hearty black and white painting. The only problem is that he negotiates all of this in an entertainment format that quickly becomes a classic heroic epic. We know early on that the story is heading for a grandiose happy ending, but to what extent this ad hoc pacification is compatible with the explosive basic issues remains to be seen. "
“Here the gap between rich and poor has already become as wide and unbridgeable as a trip through space. That makes 'Elysium' the most left-wing liberal summer blockbuster of the season - and establishes the 33-year-old director alongside the British Christopher Nolan as one of the few auteur filmmakers in current action cinema. "
“ Elysium is now again [after District 9 ] about exclusion, distributive justice and the class struggle. It is a strictly left-wing message, unfortunately always boldly and naively formulated - which, that is the special attraction of this film, conveys a testosterone- and adrenaline-driven blockbuster. That brings 'left' and 'right' movie preferences together. In the US, Elysium topped the box office this weekend. "
“ Elysium is a clever science fiction film, the story of which is fed by the evil, anti-utopian view of the here, the now, our present. And a more impressive film image for the gap between rich and poor than this gated community that revolves around the world is hard to imagine. "
“With 'Elysium', the South African shooting star Neill Blomkamp [...] creates a correspondingly gloomy vision of the future that he fires with plenty of action. The film looks fantastic and the design of the eponymous space station is breathtaking, but the plot and characters are largely woodcut-like and so Blomkamp's vision ultimately lacks the substantive substance to turn a visually impressive work into a truly forward-looking science fiction work. "
“Whether the imbalance between rich and poor, the dream of a better life or the ignorance of the authorities about the existential problems of the world: As in his cinema debut 'District 9' four years ago, Neill Blomkamp skillfully combines massive blockbuster elements with one in this dystopia emphatic but never intrusive criticism of social and political grievances. [...] Conclusion: long reverberating dystopia that shows how demanding modern science fiction cinema can be. "
“The 'District 9' director not only raises critical questions about social polarities, but also develops approaches of his own style in the highly budgeted action genre. In the hysterical finale, however, all of these individualities are literally flattened. "
Web links
- Elysium in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Elysium at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Elysium at Metacritic (English)
- Elysium in the online film database
- Elysium in the German dubbing index
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL from 12 - FSK 16 , ORF 1 from 12 - FSK 16 by Elysium at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Elysium . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 824 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Elysium . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: We are in a worldwide immigration crisis on time online August 15, 2013, accessed on August 15, 2013.
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ^ Nino Klingler: film review. In: Critic.de. Critic.de, August 8, 2013, accessed August 12, 2013 .
- ^ Andreas Borcholte: Science fiction thriller "Elysium". Fighting machine as a class fighter. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, August 12, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2013 : "Far too seldom do you see future cinema that is so passionately staged at the moment."
- ↑ Martina Knoben: Battle for the Ferris Wheel. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 14, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Hartwig Tegeler: Class struggle in orbit. Deutschlandradio , August 14, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2013 .
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: film review. Film releases , accessed December 5, 2015 .
- ^ Film review. Cinema , accessed December 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Elysium. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .