That is the gist of a HuffPo piece by law professor Charles Reid:
Neill Blomkamp has emerged as a rare voice in cinema -- a director who is commercially successful and still has something important to say about the human condition.
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His favored vehicle for social commentary is the science fiction movie. His film District 9, which was released in 2009, was a work of genius in the way it examined what makes us human and the ways in which we can easily dehumanize those different from ourselves, transforming them into monsters we can subjugate or kill with impunity. ...
If we step away from the action-movie gun play [in Elysium, his latest film], if we look instead at the vivid contrasting pictures of wealth and poverty, I believe that Blomkamp is doing nothing less than highlighting a central feature of the Christian message.
Christ, after all, came to destroy the social boundaries separating rich and poor. He recognized the dignity of the poor. That is the meaning, after all, of the widow's mite (Mark 12: 41-44; Luke 21: 1-4). Even though the poor widow gave the smallest gift, Jesus commended her since, unlike the wealthy, who dropped their pocket change in the collection, she gave all she had.
Jesus knew that the poor, not the rich, stood to inherit the Kingdom of God. Thus he recited the parable of Dives and Lazarus. Poor Lazarus dined on the rich man's table scraps and had only the dogs to lick his sores. But it was Lazarus who after death was transported to Abraham's bosom, while Dives was sent packing to Hell. (Luke 16: 19-31). ...
... Christ insisted on the oneness of all humanity. And if we truly understand that we are all one, that we are truly brothers and sisters, there would be no yawning chasm in the health care afforded the rich and the poor. We would not see a poor man in North Carolina pretend to rob a bank just to get arrested and receive medical care for the tumor on his chest. We would see an educational system that gave an equal chance to the children of the rich and poor to succeed. And the favela visited by Pope Francis on his trip to Brazil would be confined to the memory hole.
