This is already happening

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2018)

Excellent visual and good acting. Yes, this movie should've had a better pace, but nothing that could've damaged its real value. The simple truth is that Blomkamp has something important to say and he knows what he is talking about and how to film it.
I read people here saying the story is just too extreme, unreal...
Please...
Overpopulation is real as the hypocrisy about birth control. Poverty and inequality are rampant. Fascism is spreading fast... Waves of miserable people are dying trying to enter not only Europe and North America, but even Brazil!!! Brazil, that has more homicides than half of the world together...
Truth is that countries like Brazil, Mexico and South Africa are already organized in the "condo" logic that Elysium denounced. The fact that some people denied this reality is the reason why this movie is so relevant. People should read Locke again and try hard to understand that unjustified extreme inequality breaks the system. That should be no mystery, since French and Russian revolutions were just about that... But if this mystery still remains, Blomkamp is fully justified and needed.
Of course the movie isn't just the message. There are excellent filming and good acting. Luna, Braga, Moura and Copley know exactly what they are doing. Those characters, that violence and despair, it is all real and they saw that on their homelands...
That's why Damon is so good, because he really jump on and find the main line: despair. The same despair of the people that dye trying to reach a country where they maybe will have access to primary goods.