The year is 2154 and Elysium is the new Gated Community located in space for the wealthy 1% with access to all the best in health care and secure living. Earth has since become a diseased, polluted and an insecure place to live. Similarly Georgetown has become a diseased, polluted and an insecure place to live hence Pradoville 1 and Pradoville 2 and the new gated developments abound to insulate the haves from the have nots.
That does not stop the earthlings from trying to illegally gain access to Elysium. This is a great movie with a great socioeconomic theme set in the future but relates to the present. Elysium's director of homeland security can best be described as a futuristic Dick Cheney in woman’s clothing or an inept Guyanese home affairs minister in drag using fanthoms to carry out his wishes.
Surprisingly the President of Elysium is a powerless Indian by the name of Mr. Patel, or in Guyana’s scenario a powerless Ramotar. It is ironic that even though the movie is set in Los Angeles it is actually filmed in Mexico and uses South African mercenaries as hidden embedded assets to carry out the orders of the wealthy 1% – this reads like modern day CIA embedded assets around the world with Elysium being America. Also it could be set in the American modern day state of Arizona with its fence and border patrol trying to keep the Mexicans out of America.
Elysium can also be present day America with Guyanese and other potential immigrants looking for ways to buy into Elsium and being facilitated by the likes of Thomas Caroll and other coyotes.
