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‘Blue Jasmine’ and ‘Elysium’: Inequality at the movies

An urban auteur with a hardscrabble past: "Blue Jasmine": 77-year-old Brooklynite and immigrants' son Woody Allen now lives in New York's wealthy enclave, the Upper East Side. "Elysium": 33-year-old South African child of apartheid Neill Blomkamp now lives in Canada's wealthy West Coast enclave, Vancouver.

An urban auteur with a hardscrabble past:

“Blue Jasmine”: 77-year-old Brooklynite and immigrants’ son Woody Allen now lives in New York’s wealthy enclave, the Upper East Side.


“Elysium”: 33-year-old South African child of apartheid Neill Blomkamp now lives in Canada’s wealthy West Coast enclave, Vancouver.

  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times, Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

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