Damon’s shoes are probably made of foie gras and caviar
Damon thinks we are all stupid and he can lecture us in a movie without us knowing it...
Elysium, it is safe to say, will not lose Damon money. The big-budget sci-fi action thriller is set 50 years in the future, when Los Angeles has been reduced to a post-apocalyptic slum and the super-rich have fled our ravaged planet for a ruthlessly exclusive space station, Elysium, where everyone owns a machine that can cure illness and injury within seconds. LA’s desperate and dying will pay anything for a place on a craft bound for Elysium, only to be shot down by military rulers who consider their privilege a right, and self-preservation a moral absolute.
In other words, it is an allegory: a movie about global injustice and immigration that looks like your average sci-fi extravaganza but is artfully crafted to make western audiences identify for once with the poor and destitute who gamble with their lives to reach the west every day. Even if some viewers miss the allegory altogether, Damon says, “I don’t feel like anyone’s going to feel like they’re the ones on Elysium.” And for all its fantasy elements – the cyborgs, the magic medical machines – he doesn’t think its futuristic vision is too far-fetched.
“I honestly think the world’s going to look very different in 20 years. I mean, could you imagine,” and he holds up his mobile phone, “that this has access to more information than the president had 15 years ago? There’s more computing power in this than the strongest computer in the 1970s.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/02/matt-damon-activist-star-elysium