The film combines black humor, satire incitement, violence and blood, as well as discussions on the current real class and cyber violence.
Even US President Trump, on the eve of the film’s original plan to be released in August last year, accused the film on social software. Hollywood is the real racist.
As a result, "Hunting" was delayed until March this year because of the local shooting incident in the United States and various other reasons.
Obviously, after the movie "The Hunt" comes out, it will definitely attract aesthetic isolation. This aesthetic isolation does not lie in the quality of the film itself, but lies in the ironic issues behind the film, just like the comments brought by "Joker" at the time. The polarization is the same.
The original name of "The Hunt" is also bluntly called "Red and Blue State War". The simile and metaphor to be expressed in the film can't be more obvious.
However, when Trump spoke out, coupled with the pressure of realistic public opinion, Universal Pictures was able to converge a bit and changed its original name to "Hunting". However, the producer was confident that, except for the title, the content of the film is all framed. Has not changed.
Many people will think that "The Hunt" hides the very sensitive criticism and thinking of the American class, and even triggered a debate between American politics and red and blue.
But for me, "Hunting" is far from being so specialized. After the overall viewing of the film, the coolness and enjoyment are the main features of the film, and the so-called satire, criticism, thinking, etc. of reality outside the plot of the film, I More thoughts are ridicules and complaints, and I have just taken it in a flash.
Many people will compare "Hunting" and "Joker", because the topics of the two works are American class estrangement, public opinion and prejudice, and the expression of political stance.
But "Hunting" is more entertaining and unscrupulous, closer to the non-sci-fi version of "Black Mirror" (the covers are very similar).
The black humor and absurdity of "Hunting" is deliberately not serious, and it tells the audience from the side: "Hey buddy, don't take it seriously, I don't care about all the real problems you see here. If you are serious, you will lose. Enjoy it. The sensory stimulation of this hunting journey is just fine."
However, in my in-depth analysis, of course, I still have to seriously talk about the various ridicules of the film.
Red and blue
The analogy of the red and blue states is a controversy that "Hunting" has always been unable to avoid, and this is where the film has been pushed to the forefront.
In the United States, the red state represents the Republican Party, and the blue represents the Democratic Party.
In the film, it is very obvious that the blue state represents the hunters of the liberal elite class, and the prey is the representative of the red state. In other words, the prey of the red state is a supporter of Trump.
One sentence from the chat record of the film’s female boss said: “Nothing is more interesting than going to the manor to kill Deplorables.”
Deplorables, the miserable person (inferior), it is this word that caused the wave of public opinion and the beginning of the hunt.
In reality, Clinton used this term in the 2016 presidential election to address voters who supported Trump at the time.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why American audiences regard the people who are hunted like piglets in the film as representatives of Trump supporters. It is no wonder that the film will cause great controversy in the United States, and Trump will be directly named and accused.
But the ridicule and irony of this movie is not over yet. In the film, we watched Trump’s supporters fall one by one, but at the end of the film, the heroine wins, and finally the heroine sits with a gun and champagne. Female boss's private jet.
Such an outcome indirectly satirized Trump, who won the general election, and finally won the final victory in such a torn status quo in the United States.
Of course, "The Hunt" wanted to maintain a balance of political stance, so in the plot design, there was an arrangement for the female boss to catch the person who was the female lead by mistake, which ultimately resulted in an absurd and self-digging hunt.
Tortoise and the Hare
In the film, when the heroine decided to kill the elite base camp, she talked about an R-class version of the tortoise and the hare that we have never heard of.
The first half of the story of the tortoise and the hare race is the normal version we have heard. The tortoise defeated the arrogant rabbit, but in the end the hare went to the tortoise’s house for revenge and killed the tortoise’s family.
Finally, the hostess said that the rabbit will always be a rabbit, and the rabbit will always be a winner. Then Tang asked next to us, who is the rabbit and who is the tortoise.
The heroine did not answer directly, leaving the question to the audience.
Let me start with the conclusion. The rabbits here represent the elite hunters. Whether they are hunted in this manor or in reality, they are superior rabbits and will always win.
The female protagonists who were hunted were tortoises.
The heroine had already killed a lot of people on the elite side at the time, and they could escape with a car after pulling back a round. This meant that the heroine had won the hunting game at this time, just like the tortoise had won the rabbit in the game.
But in reality, the heroine still has no face to face. The female boss will still send someone to chase her after the event, just like the rabbit in the tortoise and the hare, who will go to the tortoise's house to kill the tortoise after the game.
Therefore, the heroine can only fight back first, and go retrograde to kill the female boss (rabbit), so as to truly reap the victory.
"Animal Farm" and Snowball
The "Animal Farm" mentioned in the film is a fable written by the great British writer George Orwell, and the Snowball Little White Pig in the story is used as a metaphor for the heroine.
"Animal Farm" tells the story of a group of farm animals on a certain day. Snowball and Napoleon, represented by the pig herd, led other animals to protest against the human farmer. With the concerted efforts of the animals, they drove away humans.
So Snowball and Napoleon’s two pigs set the commandment: “4 legs are good, 2 legs are bad (human beings), and every animal is equal.”
Then the farm entered a peaceful and stable utopia, but the good times didn't last long. The leader Snowball and Napoleon two pigs initiated an infighting. In the end, Napoleon drove away the idealistic Snowball and won the final power to lead the farm.
Then Napoleon changed the commandment and added a sentence after "Every animal is equal": "But some animals are more equal than others."
Finally, Napoleon began to cooperate with humans, and this story ended.
The female boss of the movie "Hunting" used a snowball to compare the female boss, but the female boss finally mocked the female boss and said it was a mistake. The female boss said that the title snowball is more suitable for the female boss.
Looking at the whole movie, it is indeed an idealistic pig like Snowball, more like the female boss in the movie.
It is precisely because the female boss cannot stand the persecution of online violence that she idealizes the real society too much, which makes herself more angry and crazy.
As for the hostess herself, she is actually a person with a very good story. She had previously served as a soldier in Afghanistan, but she turned out to be a boring taxi driver when she came back.
In the hunting process, she used a needle to rub her hair to make a compass from the beginning, picking up a weapon to kill without blinking. During the chat between the heroine and the reserve soldier, we can see that the heroine is more adaptable and even more nostalgic. In the brutal hunting environment, the heroine spoke in a daze from time to time in the film, which also shows that the heroine seems to be suffering from PTSD, which leads to a little nervousness.
Speaking of which, don’t you think of who this heroine looks like? !
Give everyone 3 seconds.
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Yes, Travis, the hero of Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver."
It can be said that the heroine status of "The Hunt" is the female version of Travis, and then she was arranged to the hunting manor, which was just what the heroine wanted.
In addition to the above-mentioned various satires, the film also very directly ridicules online violence and distortion, gun control, global warming, anti-racism, immigration and anti-immigrants, LGBTQ, cultural appropriation, anti-Semitism, abortion laws, etc. , Almost any current popular disagreement in the United States, are all speculated in this movie.
This is also the reason why "The Hunt" is not lovable and controversial in the United States, because the film offends almost all groups and representatives, but it complains about its seriousness in depth, which leads to the fact that the essence of the film does not have much to stand up. the opinion of.
This is very similar to "The Hunger Games", which seems to be criticizing something, but it is not fully released.
However, in general, the viewability of "Hunting" is still quite high. Compared with those cool films that play with creative settings too hard, "Hunting" has at least given a lot of discussion and exposure to its controversy. And make the film less streamlined and mediocre.
If you want to have an addiction recently, experience this "American Battle Royale" and "Hunting" movie, you should not be disappointed.
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