By David Mccormack PUBLISHED: 12:29 EST, 8 August 2013 | UPDATED: 13:10 EST, 8 August 2013 Matt Damon’s new sci-fi blockbuster 'Elysium' has received a deluge of criticism that it is pushing a socialist agenda - inspired by the Occupy movement - down moviegoers’ throats. Set in the year 2154, ‘Elysium’ imagines a world where the wealthy elite have abandoned an overcrowded Earth for a better life aboard a luxury space station. While Earth is characterized by crime-riddled and poverty-stricken slums, the super-rich live in Elysium, an exclusive gated community in space complete with a cure for all illnesses and robots that enforce strict anti-immigration laws.
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'Elysium' is set in a future-world where the rich elite have left earth to live in a luxury space station
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The place they've left behind is characterized by crime-riddled and poverty-stricken slums
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Critics have accused it of flaunting an 'openly socialist political agenda'
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Matt Damon and director Neill Blomkamp deny that they're making an overt statement about the widening gap between rich and poor
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The extreme disparity between the haves and have nots in the movie bears strong parallels with the @placeholder’s fight against social and economic inequality and the vilification of the one per cent.