Posted on 08/14/2013 6:08:48 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
The new movie Elysium, another science-fiction fable from young Boer refugee Neill Blomkamp about the horrors of mass immigration and nonwhite overpopulation, isnt terribly amusing to watch. But at the meta level, the career of Blomkamp, whose mother dragged the family off from Johannesburg to Vancouver after a 17-year-old friend was shot dead by black carjackers, is one of the funnier pranks played on the American culturatis hive mind in recent decades.
Ive read over a hundred reviews of Blomkamps two movies, and virtually no critic has noticed that he does not share their worldview.
Not at all.
Blomkamps 2009 Best Picture-nominated District 9, in which the black residents of his native Johannesburg demand that their black-run government clear out millions of feckless illegal space aliens, was universally praised by American critics as an apartheid allegory. Yet Blomkamp has relentlessly insisted in interviews that its really about the collapse of Zimbabwe and the flood of illegal immigrants into South Africa, and then how you have impoverished black South Africans in conflict with the immigrants.
Similarly, Elysium is another Malthusian tale about open borders, set in a dystopian 2154. By then, Los Angeles has been completely overrun by Mexicans, who have turned it into an endless, dusty slum that looks remarkably like urban Mexico today. (Blomkamp filmed for four months in Mexico City.)
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I'm inclined to believe my lyin' eyes:
Blomkamps 2009 Best Picture-nominated District 9, in which the black residents of his native Johannesburg demand that their black-run government clear out millions of feckless illegal space aliens, was universally praised by American critics as an apartheid allegory. Yet Blomkamp has relentlessly insisted in interviews that its really about the collapse of Zimbabwe and the flood of illegal immigrants into South Africa, and then how you have impoverished black South Africans in conflict with the immigrants.
That’s why some on the left criticized him, but I wouldn’t assume Blomkamp shares Sailer’s opinions all down the line. How long would he put up with Matt Damon if he did?
Blomkamp is a nobody. He doesn't put up with Damon and Foster - Damon and Foster put up with him. After this movie, that may change, but I doubt it. One successful film isn't enough to make him a hot property, and this film isn't exactly a blockbuster yet.
You have to wonder if he knows what the films message is.
Wow! If you haven’t even seen the movie, you are an astute reader and observer.
That is very nearly a summary of the movie and its impression on me.
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