Elysium, the newest film from Neill Blomkamp, the creator of District 9 once again forces us into a world where the unspoken social undercurrents of our modern world are thrust into light. The post-apartheid era of District 9 gives way to a stark, segregationist landscape reminiscent of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. On Earth, we experience Los Angeles in the year 2154, a wretched hive of scum and villainy if there ever was one. Citizens of Earth live under the distant glimmer of Elysium, an Edenic off-world haven. Those wealthy enough to flee the plague-ridden Earth have made Elysium their utopian home, while the less fortunate have been left to toil by the sweat of their brows.