The Future is Here!

Rating: 4/10 (25 January 2020)

Jean-Luc Godard as long ago as 1965 created a city of the future simply by filming 'Alphaville' in modern Paris; and I've long thought that if the original 'Assault on Precinct 13' (1976) had begun with a caption locating the action in Los Angeles in the year 1980 it would instantly have become science-fiction.
'Elisium' likewise (as the director himself said) despite being set in the year 2154 is basically about the world as it is now, when the rich look the other way from the security of their gated communities just as over eighty years ago the wealthy in their luxurious apartments overlooking the East River ignored the teeming slums below their balconies in 'Dead End'.