Ten minutes into the opening I slapped myself. This film is no longer a question of political incorrectness. That strong sense of Western superiority hits through the screen - "These girls will follow you", "Welcome to the third world, oh, the fourth world." The male protagonist looked at the typical Asian slum scenery outside the car with helpless and uneasy eyes. The female protagonist cried and fainted in the toilet in the middle of the night, as if blaming her husband for pulling the family to such a place. The male protagonist speaks English throughout the whole process, and he never thought to communicate with the locals in the local language - you are only involved in infrastructure construction, and you can't speak a word or two in everyday language? The key is that he didn't even try, he went to buy a newspaper and spoke English directly to the old man, regardless of whether people could understand it or not. The old man sat sluggishly, his face expressionless like an emotionless robot (don't worry, he's just the first in this film, there are many more...), and then handed the male protagonist a newspaper from three days ago. The male protagonist was helpless again, and the lines "Forget these people can't communicate at all" were completely written on his face.
Is it true that every western citizen who travels to the third world is a slap in the face of "I own this place"? Certainly not.
I was already uncomfortable before the war, and I was worried that I would be even more uncomfortable when the fight started. But I seriously predict that the screenwriters should not simply portray Asians as barbarians.
I really overestimate them.
The Asian characters in this film are comparable to zombies, and even more zombies. I've never seen so many faceless, nameless, non-English-speaking characters in any film (the rebels/villains speak Thai throughout, and the film doesn't give any English subtitles of Thai lines). All their roles are murder, arson, smashing and looting, hating the beauty, chasing the protagonist, speaking in Thai that the audience can't understand a word, looking like orcs/aliens/zombies - in short, they are shaped into This image, a group of bloodthirsty murderers who are far from civilization, irrational, and overrun by nationalism. And that's the creator's intent. If not, please tell me why the Thai lines are not translated? why? There are definitely a lot of lines spoken by the locals, but not a single subtitle. What do the audience on the screen think? Audiences definitely don't see them as human beings.
The whole film lacks background, some people say it alludes to Thailand, some people say it alludes to Cambodia. It is the screenwriter's responsibility to explain the ins and outs in a few words, or at least tell the audience what caused it all. Although there is an assassination scene at the beginning, and the later plot mentions the motivation slightly, the overall language is unclear, and the screenwriter seems to intend to downplay this point. On the bright side, they want the audience to focus entirely on the escape, but on the other hand, they don't care - isn't Southeast Asia just a chaotic mass of savage social order out of control? What else needs to be explained? How much psychological shadow will such a Southeast Asia put on the screen leave audiences in other countries? They don't care at all, and that's probably what they want.
In this way, the actions of the people other than the protagonist are not explained in detail from beginning to end, plus there is no subtitle (I am really pissed!), and the screenwriter also refuses to give them other scenes except violent murder, which makes them Completely reduced to a zombie that only desires to tear apart human flesh. This is the sequel to World War Z, just with a different mod.
If it really was a zombie movie, it would be worth at least four stars. The editing is sharp, the rhythm is tight, and the small orgasms are one after the other, which is really exciting. Of course, the pitfalls also make people feel relieved. The scene of throwing the child was meant to show that the family was desperate to survive, but it turned out to be a comedy (actually you wanted to kill your wife). When the male protagonist went to the rooftop, he kicked the door and shouted, "Let's go in, we're Americans!" I almost laughed. Not surprisingly, the two little loli turned into bears under the arrangement of the script. At other times, the protagonist's halo is always around, and when there is danger, someone will help. Of course, the Asians who rescued them all died. In the office building where the protagonists are hiding, the innocent people of Asia are also wiped out.
But no one cares. After all, Southeast Asia, after all, the third world.
Pierce Brosnan may be the highlight of this film of bad Asians acting as zombies to persecute good American citizens who take care of their families. He honestly admitted that "Yes, Western countries are using infrastructure to control Southeast Asian countries", and finally mentioned the motives of the rebels when there was a quarter of an hour left in the film - "They generally don't resist very much, we didn't expect this time... "..."——This reason for turning into a zombie in seconds is too far-fetched. Who else would do this except for extremists like ISIS? The male protagonist asked him if you were from British CIA, and he said yes. Alluding to 007 here makes people smile. This is probably the only shot that brings a sigh of relief.
I don't know why so many people don't see such obvious discrimination. I read the short reviews and found that many people came to see it with the mood of "Southeast Asia is really scary", and it was confirmed. Is it true that people in "developed" countries tend to be wary of people in less developed areas? Do you feel that you are a civilized person in a civilized area, so you instinctively have a fear of the barbarism caused by backwardness?
I've always hated political correctness, but this movie was too much even for me. In fact, I don't care if you shape ISIS as a zombie or a terrorist as a zombie (in fact, because terrorists have a slightly higher fashion value, they may also be added to the general movie, so as not to be so vague). But how can half the population of a country be portrayed as maddened. We may never know why the rebels in this movie kill people when they see them. This is no longer a problem of contracting the zombie virus that hates the United States. When they see a person who escapes, whether they are natives or foreigners, they all come forward. I would like to ask the screenwriter what is the reason for creating characters like this, and what makes the screenwriter feel that there is no problem in filming the people of Southeast Asia like this? I am really confused. In addition, you want to show how an ordinary family survives a desperate situation in a riot, and just make it into a zombie movie or make an overhead plan, such as a human removal plan, what kind of mentality is it to drag the three-dimensional Southeast Asia into the water.
Or, Southeast Asians have more gimmicks than zombies. It's boring to see zombies tearing people apart. The brutal Southeast Asian rebels come to tear up middle-class white families. That's the real horror.
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