Elysium Character Analysis

This film takes place in the year of 2154, a time where one race is divided by social class, immigration, and access to healthcare. How ironic you say? Well like today in age we face many of these similar issues on a global scale. In the U.S. many immigrants travel in search for the American Dream. A dream that provides stability, prosperity, equality and progression through hard work. This isn’t always the reality for many and this movie provides a glimpse of what many face today. The struggle for social mobility is far out of reach for the people living on earth, including the movies main character Max. The earth, as we see it in the film has been destroyed filled with pollution, disease, overpopulation and lack human daily necessities to …show more content…
In Elysium in order to live their you must be a citizen and hold a seal that gains no only access to live on the spaceship but long with its benefits. Anyone that tries to enter Elysium will be dealt with deportation if they manage to land or death in outer space through explosives. In past history our immigration policy has gone through significant reformation but there is always that desperation to come to America. In many cases, like Elysium people die trying to travel the long journey through Mexico into the United States. The desperation is what leads them to illegally immigrate into the U.S. to find out their access to resources are limited due to immigration status. Similar to Max and his long time friend Freas daughter. In Elysium Max was exposed to a deathly dose of radiation giving him five days to live and Freas daughter suffered from Leukemia. The only thing that could guarantee their survival was the health care benefits provided in Elysium. A high definition tanning table that cured anything from a practical illness, organ repair and body reconstruction. However, both Max and Freas daughter lacked citizenship to Elysium. Max needed to get there at any cost and Frea’s daughter needed that seal that would allow the tanning cure bed to work. In current society immigration status is everything and allows you access to certain benefits. Our immigration policy today is very much debated especially in a time where America has been exposed to terrorist threats making policy that much more difficult to agree upon. For Max his determination would lead him to a successful but difficult passage into Elysium. However, the cost was something he may have feared but learned to live with for the sake of equality for