04-21-2013, 03:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-21-2013, 09:26 AM by Sim Koning.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ-bYOyQ46Y
Same director as District 9. It appears he is once again drawing from his experience growing up in Jo'burg, South Africa. The last film was an apartheid allegory, while this movie appears to be extrapolating from SA's enormous income inequality.
I'm glad hard SF elements are slowly trickling into Hollywood. We got to see a semi-plausible starship in Avatar, and now we get too see a Stanford torus -- albeit a slightly inaccurate one -- on the big screen.
Same director as District 9. It appears he is once again drawing from his experience growing up in Jo'burg, South Africa. The last film was an apartheid allegory, while this movie appears to be extrapolating from SA's enormous income inequality.
I'm glad hard SF elements are slowly trickling into Hollywood. We got to see a semi-plausible starship in Avatar, and now we get too see a Stanford torus -- albeit a slightly inaccurate one -- on the big screen.