8/11/2013 Lughnasa Honey Moon
Continuing in that vein but in a different medium: Elysium. A sci-fi movie with a hyper alienated working class inhabiting a desiccated earth while the .1% live a life of luxury in a space station floating high above the earth. This is not great cinema, but it’s good cinema. If you can’t make the connections with the immigration debate, the health care debate, the economic justice necessary for a humane society, then you’re not paying attention. It is, in some senses, a little too obvious in its treatment, but these matters of simple justice are so often glossed over that hitting us between the eyes with them is often the only way to make us see. Marx said revolution was the only sure way to make people see and he was probably right, but Elysium is a step in that direction, if you get empowered to act after seeing it. I hope you do.
