Tired of the usual replays and monotones my husband rented a movie from Telus VOD (Video On Demand). The movie is good for two days. He rented it the other day and my daughter Tam and I watched it last night while we have our dinner. It was the new movie of Jodie Foster ( the multi-acclaimed actress and star of Contact the movie and FBI agent Clarisse of Silence of The Lambs phenomenon) and Matt Damon (the Bourne Legacy and Bourne Ultimatum Jason Bourne fame) in one sci-fi movie ELYSIUM the two actors are joined together although the two have no dialogue whatsoever. Imagine two biggest movie actor and actress of Hollywood acted in one movie and they don't have any conversation at all nor the two of them in one scene where they have to converse with each other. Kind of weird right? It's more like the special effect of the Star Wars movie where leading actors and actresses are not joined together in one incredible place because the other one is shot in another screen to the next screen as if they are in the process of illumination or optical illusion.
We watched the science behind ELYSIUM. ELY the name of Jodie Foster in the movie CONTACT.That reminds you of how she was able to meet the wealthy provider of the secret machine that brought her to an amazing paradise like space through so called intergalactic super power resonance time machine. It's more like MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine) although she was sitting on a chair as she brought to convulsive state of mind and somewhat paranoia state of hysteria into the unknown. In ELYSIUM, the rich, powerful and influential people were off above the Earth living in a "wheel-like planet." If you are a Babylon 5 fan you know what I'm stating here. The Earth becomes a dumpsite of everything dirty, filthy and garbage everywhere and nobody cares about the filth that earthlings are prone to sickness and all kinds of disease and malady. It seems that the earth is so dry and smoggy and toxic place to live and the living entities are those who worked for the plant. Security is managed by robots and robotic creatures. The robots are the ones who took charge of keeping not only the security but also in diagnosis of people's health. Diagnostic test is applied and the robots also give prescription and supply the amount of medicine to be taken by the patient. It's weird right?
But there are doctors and nurses who take the same kind of work in today's world. You can slap them on their face perhaps to awaken their senses. They don't care about who you are. They don't even know your name and cannot remember who you are anyway. There was a time when one blogger had a record of a situation wherein she asked Rx or prescription from her doctor and she was given the wrong medicine. Good that she was able to read and recognized the medicine before she bought it. But how many times she remember that the medicine she took is the right one? There are cancer patients whose eyesight or vision is getting poor or they go blind because of too much chemotherapy. She died years ago of cancer. Hopefully whoever can read her blog can offer sympathy and hope that each and everyone of us learned from such lesson. Doctors and nurses should always have frequent visitors from the Pharma representatives to inform them of the medicines they prescribed. I know detailing of products is tiring and boring however medical practioners learned from frequent detailing of products. It is not a waste of time listening to precautionary measures.
OMG! At least with the robots they check your name maybe even weigh how many pounds (lbs.) you are before the robot give you prescription or take your pulse and check your blood pressure. That should be done before giving prescription. The amount in grams of pills, tablets of any kind of medicine should be taken in account. You can't give 500 gms /pill to a patient that is only 75 lbs. and to be taken 3x a day? Even if the patient weighs 125 lbs. the pill that is 500 gms is too much to be taken 3x/day. For God sake! You wont be able to wake up. You'll be sleeping the whole day and night. No wonder there are patients who never wake up anymore.
Anyway, this movie ELYSIUM looks like the continuation of CONTACT and it opens a wide conscientious being of how the rich and powerful want to control the world for their own good. They have to protect themselves from being infected. They followed the rule of law and some people do not follow the same rule then what will become of the rest of the world? Look at Milla Jovovich movie "Resident Evil" when almost everyone got infected by the killer venemous virus, only one remain alive at the end?
