Elysium Dvd

Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction action film written, produced and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, and Sharlto Copley.The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth, and a luxurious space habitat (Stanford torus design, one of the proposed NASA designs) called Elysium. The film itself offers deliberate social commentary which explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, transhumanism, health care, worker exploitation, the justice system, and social class issues.

Plot

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In 2154, Earth citizens live in poverty. The rich and powerful live on Elysium, a gigantic space habitat in Earth’s orbit. Elysium is technologically advanced, with devices that can cure all diseases, reverse aging, and regenerate body parts. A feud exists between Elysium and Earth, whose residents want Elysian technology to cure their illnesses.

Max Da Costa lives in Los Angeles and works at an assembly line for Armadyne. Run by CEO John Carlyle, who designed Elysium, Armadyne produces Elysium’s weaponry and the robots that police Earth. During an industrial accident, Max is trapped in a kiln and is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. He is rescued and informed that he has five days to live. Carlyle refuses to help him, and Max is only given medication to stop the symptoms until his death. Max and his friend Julio seek help from a human smuggler named Spider to get him to Elysium in order to use a Med-Bay.

When three ships carrying immigrants from Earth attempt to reach Elysium, Defense Secretary Delacourt orders agent Kruger to destroy them. Two shuttles are shot down in space but the third is not. Once on Elysium everyone on board is killed or deported. Elysian President Patel reprimands Delacourt for her response and threatens to fire her unless she tones down her actions. Kruger is dismissed from service. Delacourt gives Carlyle millions of dollars in weapon contracts to create a program that can override Elysium’s computer to give her the Presidency. Carlyle stores the program in his brain to take to Elysium and encrypts it with a program that would kill him in case of any attempt to manipulate or extract the data.

Spider agrees to get Max to Elysium if he can steal information from Carlyle. Spider’s men surgically attach a powered exoskeleton to Max. With Julio and Spider’s men, Max shoots down Carlyle’s ship. In the firefight with Carlyle’s security droids, Carlyle dies. Max downloads the program to his suit’s neural implant but the encryption makes it unusable. Alerted to the data theft, Delacourt reinstates Kruger and deploys him to recover the program. In a shootout, Julio is killed and Max is wounded. He contacts his friend Frey, a nurse. Frey begs Max to take her daughter Matilda to Elysium to be cured of Leukemia, but Max refuses in order to protect them. Kruger, alongside mercenaries Drake and Crowe, arrive and interrogate Frey; when Kruger realizes that Matilda is sick, they take Frey and Matilda aboard his ship while his drones hunt for Max. Delacourt orders an airspace lockdown over Los Angeles.

Max delivers the program to Spider, who discovers that it can be used to make Earth’s residents Elysian citizens. The lockdown makes it impossible to leave Earth, so Max bargains with Kruger to be taken to Elysium, unaware that Kruger is holding Frey and Matilda hostage. As Kruger’s ship leaves Earth, Spider and his men take advantage of the lifting of the lockdown and board a ship towards Elysium. Meanwhile, in Kruger’s ship, a fight erupts and Kruger is wounded by a grenade, which disables the ship’s engines. After the ship crashes on Elysium, Max is knocked out by Drake, while Frey escapes with Matilda to a mansion, and discovers that Med-Bays only work for Elysian citizens. Crowe arrives and subdues Frey with a taser. Max, Frey and Matilda are taken to Delacourt, who orders the decryption of the program despite the fact that it will kill Max. She then orders Frey and Matilda to be taken away by Crowe, who locks them in a room.

After being restored in a Med-Bay, Kruger kills Delacourt. Drake and Crowe assassinate Elysian political officers in order to seize control. Having escaped his confinement, Max, knowing that Med-Bays only work for Elysian citizens, resolves to use the program and give everyone on Earth Elysian citizenship. After being ordered by Kruger to kill Frey and Matilda, Crowe prepares to rape Frey first, but Max kills him and Drake and frees Frey and Matilda. Max meets up with Spider, who has Frey and Matilda escorted to a Med-Bay. They head for Elysium’s computer core but are ambushed by Kruger. Max rips out Kruger’s neural implant, rendering his suit immobile. Kruger tethers himself to Max’s suit and arms a grenade to kill them both. Max rips off the tether and hurls Kruger over a ledge, killing him. Spider and Max reach Elysium’s core, where Spider realizes that the program’s activation will kill Max. Max activates the program. As Max dies, Elysium’s core reboots and registers every Earth resident as an Elysian citizen. President Patel arrives but the robots refuse to arrest Spider, whom they now recognize as a citizen. Matilda is cured by a Med-Bay and Elysium’s computer dispatches a fleet of medical ships to treat the people of Earth.

Cast

Matt Damon as Max Da Costa
Maxwell Perry Cotton as young Max
Jodie Foster as Defense Secretary Jessica Delacourt
Alice Braga as Frey Santiago
Valentina Giron as young Frey
Sharlto Copley as Agent M. Kruger
Diego Luna as Julio
Wagner Moura as Spider
William Fichtner as John Carlyle
Brandon Auret as Drake
Josh Blacker as Crowe
Faran Tahir as President Patel
Emma Tremblay as Matilda Santiago
Jose Pablo Cantillo as Sandro
Adrian Holmes as Manuel
Jared Keeso as Rico
Michael Mando – Rico (Uncredited)
Carly Pope, Ona Grauer and Michael Shanks as CCB agents