“Elysium” is implausible, because it’s based on a medical device manufacturer with no salespeople

wordpress ^ | August 12, 2013 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[skr]

Nix the second to.

[Dallas59]

If only the rich of Hollywood would share their medical secrets with the “hispanic immigrants” of today!

[jsanders2001]

And all the citizens of Elysium are perfect rich white people that are throwbacks to the 50’s that go to lavish parties all the time and sip their tea with their pinkies out and eat crumpets with the the exception of its President who’s an Indian (from India) while all the poor people live on earth which has become one big ghetto. The colony is protected by an evil white Jodie Foster who goes after incoming illegal aliens by shooting down their transport vehicles, killing them, when they only want a better life and want to be able to use the miracle healing device to heal their sick and dying children but can’t because they aren’t citizens.

Oh so its not biased and has no agenda at all.../s

[jsanders2001]

The only reason they probably used a white man as the main character was to not make the movie’s message so obvious IMO

[grundle]

Plus they all speak French!

[Venturer]

Jodie Foster is on my do not support list.

[reg45]

Perhaps the reason that things are so bad in the future is that it is run by idiots with no business sense.

Isn't that just another way to say socialist?

[Louis Foxwell]

This is progressive utopia. The geniuses finally understand that the only way collectivism works is if there are no poor, no serfs, no slaves, no workers and no one who prefers beer to wine.(unless it is microbrewed)
This is precisely what Russia achieved by walling in the elitists in Moscow, separating them from the hoi polloi. They had their own culture, supplies, schools,medical facilities and so forth.
This is an old fantasy of the left in which only the most deserving live in comfort and luxury.

[Born to Conserve]

You only need salesmen to sell things people don’t want to buy.

[jsanders2001]

> Jodie Foster is on my do not support list.

At least ahe doesn’t shove her lifestyle down people’s throats and stayed in the closet about even though everyone uspected she was a lesbian for a long time. I can live with that.

[IMR 4350]

Haven’t seen the movie and have no intention to until it shows up on the boob tube, but from what I’ve read and heard it sounds like an attempt to get into the public conversation what all leftist elites have dreamed of for years but never wanted to talk about.

The need for “death panels”.

[Seraphicaviary]

The most unplausible part of the movie is a minister of defence who is obviously a cheese-eating surrender monkey. She speaks French and is has a French name (Delacroix if I heard right).

[jmcenanly]

Even a an earlier version of the one on the space station would have been useful. Or else that was what the robot bureaucrat was for, since they no longer made the parts for the old machines. This movie is the direct inverse of what these colonies were supposed to be for.Mark Whittington has written an article telling more about this

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well, actually, under Obamacare, it is easy to imagine no hospital having the machine. If you cure old people’s cancer, they will die of other disease, but after living longer and racking up more health care costs.

It would be more cost-effective to let them die of cancer, than to cure them.

[moonshinner_09]

These people should be ashamed of themselves. Cancer is a serious health problem . How about the movie crew be put through some real chemotherapy and then ask them what they think about cancer.