Elysium (2013) Film Explained

Elysium (2013) Film Explained

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Rich people of this world are living their lives in a space center named ‘’Elysium’’ outside the space.- On the other hand, poor people are leading a life in land pollution and miserable condition. Everyone is leading a luxurious life in ‘’Elysium’’ and the poor are in utmost difficulties. Elysium had a machine that could cure any disease. Not only this, but it could re-grow any part of the human body. It could also stop aging. Everyone in Elysium had this machine. This whole space centre was made by the owner of Elysium. Now we see a little kid named ‘’Max’’. 

He sees a dream that he’ll take his friend to Elysium when he grows up. When he grows up, he starts stealing. Police arrest him. ‘’Max’’ is released on bail. He starts working in a company. This company was owned by the owner of Elysium, which made weapons and robots for Elysium. One day, ‘’Max’’ goes to work and the police scan him. Robot Police beat ‘’Max’’ black and blue and injure him. ‘’Max’’ goes to the hospital for treatment. Here, he finds the same girl, with whom he did friendship. She was a nurse now. 

After seeing each other after so long, ‘’Max’’ offers her a coffee. But she refuses and goes away after plastering his hand. Work on the Earth was being performed by Robots.  Poor people weren’t allowed to enter ‘’Elysium’’ and if someone mistakenly entered it, he got shot. There were many sick people on the Earth who wanted to go to the Elysium  because Elysium had that machine. By using it, they wanted to cure themselves.

 ‘’Spider’’ named man used to send his spaceship to Elysium secretly. ‘’Spider’’ sends 3 spaceships full of people to Elysium. As they move, Defense Secretary gets the wind of it. He orders to destroy those ships full of people through missiles.  Two out of three spaceships are destroyed in the Space and the remaining one lands in Elysium. People get out of that ship and enter the houses of rich people and try to use that machine to cure their diseases. 

At the same moment, Robot Police come, capture them, and send them back to the Earth. In the next scene, we talk about ‘’John Carlyle’’ who used to go the Earth daily to manage things. In the evening, he used to go back to Elysium.‘’Max’’ was working in his company. The door of the radioactive chamber gets locked during work.

 The manager of ‘’Max’’ asks him to check the chamber by going inside it. ‘’Max’’ unwantedly goes inside and its door gets locked from inside and the radioactive process starts. Radiations affect ‘’Max’’ badly. People try to open the door from outside and take him out. The robot scans him, gives him medicine, and tells him that he’ll die within 5 days.

 ‘’Max’’ goes to the house in grief and on the way, he meets his friend. His friend tells him that he knows a man who goes to Elysium. We’ll go to Elysium by taking his spaceship and use that machine which cures people’s diseases. On the very next day, they both go to ‘’Spider’’ who takes his ship to Elysium. But he refuses to take them because ‘’Max’’ had an old enmity with this man. That man fixes a device in ‘’Max’’.‘’Max’’ feels better because of it. 

On the other hand, the President of Elysium ‘’John Carlyle’’ comes to the Earth to monitor his company. Now he sets out for Elysium. ‘’Max’’ and his team attack his satellite and shoot ‘’John’’. ‘’Max’’ immediately downloads the data from his mind to his neural system. After copying, he gets understood that this whole information is encrypted. Now, the agent and Max’s team get into a fight and they kill Max’s friend. 

‘’Max’’ runs out of there and hides in his childhood friend’s house, who was a nurse now. ‘’Max’’ sees that his friend had a daughter as well.  She had cancer and only that machine in Elysium is able to cure this.  She asks him to take her daughter to Elysium somehow so that she can recover. ‘’Max’’ couldn’t help her and gets out of there because an agent was behind him. 

He gets to know about his last location. Now, this agent comes to Max’s friend’s house and asks about ‘’Max’’. When she doesn’t answer, he kidnaps both of them so that he can find ‘’Max’’ through them. ‘’Max’’ now comes to ‘’Spider’’ who told him all the codes of Elysium. He connects Max’s brain with a computer and analyzes that if the information of all the people are put in this program  and then installed in Elysium so can people of earth become part of Elysium? 

He wanted to know this now. When he tries to do this, he realizes that the satellite got jammed.  This was now impossible to update or download any program. Now, he’ll not be able to help ‘’Max’’. Now he asks ‘’Max’’ to leave. Signals are down due to John’s death. That’s why this program is not of use now. ‘’Max’’ wasn’t left with any way now. 

So, he chooses to surrender himself. When the agent comes to kill him, he blackmails him that if he doesn’t take him to Elysium, he’ll blow him up with this bomb. Agent laughs and agrees. He tells ‘’Delacourt’’ that he has captured ‘’Max’’ and he wants to come to Elysium. ‘’Max’’ sees his friend and her daughter on the same ship. Now, ‘’Max’’ couldn’t do anything because the agent had tied him up. In this ship, ‘’Max’’ and that agent fights. It blasts during a fight and the agent’s face gets damaged. As the ship stops, Max’s friend takes her daughter and tries to use that machine. 

But the machine doesn’t work because it only works on the people of Elysium. They bring that agent to that machine and his face recovers and the machine works. ‘’Max’’ and that agent fights again and ‘’Max’’ kills him. ‘’Max’’ throws him from the roof and he dies. On the other hand, her friend gets succeeded in curing her daughter. Another ship from Elysium goes to provide medical help to the people of Earth. People’s lives become easy with it and the story ends here.