A Correspondence Between Neill Blomkamp and Taong Grasa sa Dan
1. If all you wanted to say in your Elysium is that Everyone Deserves Ultimate Healthcare, you couldve just retweeted Barack Obama.
All this redundant and embarrassing production is wasting me and Jodie Foster and Anna Kendrick's time that is better spent shooting the next bisaya short film about Ingmar Bergman's influence on Filipino films.
2. The movie dialogue sounds like a rejected article by an oDesk copywriter paid 80 cents a piece.
3. Oooooh 2154 Los Angeles looks like 2013 Cebu City. Sounds like I'm all set for the future. Unrelated Question: How many guns did the Elysium tycoons (Elysi?) put to your head for you to produce this film against your will?
Here's my suggestion/solution to your problems, Neil:
- Your film history reached so far as Minority Report. How can you miss The Wire and Bobs Burgers and Adventure Time and Elmore Leonard's self-help books on dialogue?
- You obviously got inspired by the reformatting of a PC, where the PC only feels clean until about two days of looking for a bootleg bisaya short film about cats kneading my niece' knees. The easy one-click shutdown of an iPhone should have been your peg.
#ElysiumIsDisappointingEmbarrassingAndUninspired
Not you,
Taong Grasa sa Dan
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Dear Taong Grasa sa Dan,
Ahh, you're such a classic non-ironist, Mr. Taong. Perhaps what you didn't get in my film is the heavy irony infused in the message that many of my Existentialist Postmodernist friends think as simply brilliant. The point being is: the boredom my movie is making you feel is the message of the movie. I want you to realize that you are the person inside the Elysium. You're supposed to be the privileged citizen, spoiled by the profligacy of evolving beings. And yet you are still bored, unhappy, indifferent to what the media think is your concern. So this leads you to ask: who's suffering now? The actual people who are suffering or the people who are actually suffering?
Not you,
Not Neill Blomkamp
