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Elysium: Neill Blomkamp Fools the Critics Again
Takimag ^
| August 14, 2013
| Steve Sailer
Posted on 08/14/2013 6:08:48 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Mercat
My girlfriend and I went several times to visit her daughter in San Diego...one day we took a trip to Teeawana to shop...the culture shock between Tijuana and the US was shocking to this old lady...kids 3 and 4 years old selling stuff on the streets, mom sitting on curb with a box full of stuff when the kids ran out of items. Just one of several things on the streets that shocked me...but you could buy prescription drugs if you went to the right pharmacy...they had a doctor come in at the end of the day and write prescriptions for anything sold, antibiotics, Valium etc..Donkeys on the streets so you could get your picture taken on one. But shopping was cheap..and all the vendors were up for lowering their prices if you talked to them....Usually would cost 1/2 the stated price..
To: x
Blomkamp isn't a rightist any more than he's a leftist. I think he doesn't want to be pigeonholed politically, and his pictures don't reduce to a one-sided political point. 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.
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08/14/2013 4:27:57 PM PDT
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Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
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?
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08/14/2013 4:40:49 PM PDT
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x
To: x
Thats why some on the left criticized him, but I wouldnt assume Blomkamp shares Sailers 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.
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08/14/2013 8:02:25 PM PDT
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Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: BO Stinkss
You have to wonder if he knows what the films message is.
To: CharlesWayneCT
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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08/15/2013 12:03:00 AM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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