'' ELYSIUM '' : SNIPPET ENHANCED BODIES

Director : [ Blomkamp, 2013 ] Set in 2154,  ELYSIUM imagines a future in which the majority of humanity lives in poverty on Earth, while the wealthy reside aboard a luxurious orbital space station.

Up there, advanced Med-Bays, inspired by  gene-editing technologies such as Crispr, can cure disease, repair injuries, and effectively eliminate bodily limitations.

Earth-bound ex-convict Max Da Costa [ Matt Damon ] is fitted with an exoskeleton and dramatically enhances the strength and endurance of the irradiated, failing body.

The suit was partly inspired by the Human Universal Load Carrier, a real-world exo-skeleton designed for military use [ but never actually used ].

Ultimately, the fim asks who gets access to technologies that can heal, repair and thus enhance the body.

In doing so, it broadens augmentation beyond strength and endurance to question of disability, bodily reconstruction, and self-optimization - and unequal access to these technologies.

!WOW! thanks Amy C Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at Manchester University in the UK .