The 2013 film Elysium is up there too. Made by the same chap who made District 9, it's "leftist theme" is more overt, taking place in 2154. Oh, and it's about as violent as District 9 too and it has a pretty banger soundtrack.
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The entire Earth is destitute, every one of its ~15 billion people live in absolute poverty and quite literally, under the iron heel of a robotic police force commandeered from a large space station in LEO, combined with mercenaries to incite terror. The "revolution" kicks off when the protagonist fights to get a child with leukemia up on the torus so they may be cured as there is no longer any sort of medical infrastructure on the planet itself. And about half a million mega-rich folk live onboard said torus lined with parks, mansions and luxury apartments, complete with any amenities they may desire until Judgement Day, profiting off the Earth turned into little more than a slave colony. Oh yeah, and there are anti-ship batteries and missile systems to prevent anyone from launching off the Earth's surface unless the slavemasters in orbit say so. In the meantime, capitalists are gonna capitalism and one fellow is seeking to take full control of the torus and Earth to establish even a more oppressive rule.
The 2013 film Elysium is up there too. Made by the same chap who made District 9, it's "leftist theme" is more overt, taking place in 2154. Oh, and it's about as violent as District 9 too and it has a pretty banger soundtrack.
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The entire Earth is destitute, every one of its ~15 billion people live in absolute poverty and quite literally, under the iron heel of a robotic police force commandeered from a large space station in LEO, combined with mercenaries to incite terror. The "revolution" kicks off when the protagonist fights to get a child with leukemia up on the torus so they may be cured as there is no longer any sort of medical infrastructure on the planet itself. And about half a million mega-rich folk live onboard said torus lined with parks, mansions and luxury apartments, complete with any amenities they may desire until Judgement Day, profiting off the Earth turned into little more than a slave colony. Oh yeah, and there are anti-ship batteries and missile systems to prevent anyone from launching off the Earth's surface unless the slavemasters in orbit say so. In the meantime, capitalists are gonna capitalism and one fellow is seeking to take full control of the torus and Earth to establish even a more oppressive rule.