"Hunting" is a particularly interesting movie. There are three interesting points: 1. You can completely treat this movie as a commercial movie . You can watch gun battles, actions and some quite violent scenes. You can also watch this movie. Cheng is a niche type of political film , and the film does contain a lot of metaphors for race, environmental protection, class and many other aspects... 2. This film has been severely criticized by US President Trump, who thinks it is extremely The politics of is incorrect and provocative . It is hard to imagine that in a country known as freedom of speech, it would seem too stingy for the president to name and place a movie in this way. 3. If you look at this film in conjunction with the reality of the United States today, the film seems to have a certain prophetic meaning . Race issues, wealth issues, and the impact of the epidemic make the film look like reality. The people at the bottom and people of color. This is destroying the contract with the government, that is, complying with the laws and regulations of the society.
Conspiracy Theory Stories
The whole story originated from a conspiracy theory-elites will capture ordinary people, hunt them, and get distorted pleasure. As a result, 12 strangers from all over the United States appeared in Croatia and were hunted down without knowing why. At the beginning of the movie, you don't know who the protagonist is. The good guys are suddenly headshot, blown up, and poisoned. The bloody scene does make people feel a little uncomfortable. The hunters will try to increase the "game fun" as much as possible, such as letting the "prey" have weapons so that they can resist, such as disguising as various identities, small shop owners, refugees, embassy officials...
Until the real heroine appeared, Christo, an ex-soldier, had a vigorous skill and a keen consciousness, had served in Afghanistan, and was currently working in a car rental company. In her own words, she "needs to vent", so she decided on the way to escape. Anti-kill the elites.
Cruel metaphor
There is a very important transitional passage between the heroine's escape to the decision to fight back. [Dark version of the tortoise and the hare race story] , the tortoise and the hare race, the hare takes a nap, the tortoise reaches the end first, but the story is not over yet. , The hare became angry, so he went to the tortoise’s house, killed the tortoise’s family, and sat in the tortoise’s house to enjoy the tortoise’s dinner...
The elite are cruel rabbits, and the general public are tortoises, so the weapons are given to the prey because the rabbits are dozing off, because the rabbits want to create some challenges for themselves. There is another important metaphor in this film. George Orwell’s novel "Animal Farm" is mentioned repeatedly in the movie, and there is a pig named Orwell, the heroine Chris Tor is called "Snowball" by the elite.
"Animal Farm" is a novella with a dystopian ideal with obvious intentions. The animals on the farm join forces to drive away the squeezed mankind and try to establish an ideal country, but the last pig steals the fruits of the revolution and becomes a rival. Human beings are more cruel, oppression still exists, and Snowball is also a pig, once one of the leaders of the revolution, but was eventually expelled. Snowball can be understood as an existence that needs to be targeted, and this existence is precisely Christo in the movie. The metaphor expressed in "Animal Farm" is self-explanatory. Freedom and equality are limited and conditional. Utopia does not exist. Power and freedom and equality are directly proportional... And the elites in the movie, they seem to care about it on the surface Environmental issues, opposing racial discrimination, supporting LGBT, politics are more correct than anyone else, but there is still an anti-human metamorphosis in the bones, which treats human life like a waste, like a plaything.
Of course, if you don’t want to think deeply, this film is also a good action movie. It has a taste of Quentin, especially the fight between the two heroines in the kitchen. It has a bit of "Kill Bill" meaning, and the action relationship is clear. It is clear, the fighting rhythm is good, and there is a good visual presentation.
Internet revolution
In the era of underdeveloped or no Internet, the so-called elite class and the civilian class are more like two parallel lines, and there will not be too many intersections. Even if the elite class breaks out a scandal, it can reduce the influence by containing the media, and the civilian class is even more. It is impossible to imagine the extravagant life of the elites. For example, the sex scandal of the wealthy Epstein and his strange suicide have made people realize that the plot of "House of Cards" may not be out of imagination. On July 8, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was charged with a crime of sex trafficking and a crime of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking. Once the sex trafficking charge is established, the maximum sentence is 45 years in prison.
The development of the Internet has built a bridge between the elite and the common people, and ordinary people can get a glimpse of the life of the upper class, and the upper class will leave their own traces on the Internet. It can even be said that from reality to virtual network, the entire society has completed a structural change. As long as there is a network and a keyboard, everyone is equal and truly on the same plane. In the story, the elites have a chat group. In a chat, the words "hunting" and "hunting ground" were mentioned. The chat content was leaked and was criticized on the Internet by the population. In the movie, 12 ordinary people were hunted and killed. They all have one thing in common, that is, they have strongly criticized the hunting games of the elites on the Internet (regardless of whether hunting games actually exist).
My personal guess is that Trump may have been stabbed here. In a country that prides itself on "democracy and freedom", ordinary people will become the target of elite hunting because of online speech. If they are arrested, then anyone is possible. Being hunted for any reason and becoming a toy of the powerful, I am afraid that this can also explain Epstein’s scandal. Once the so-called elite is targeted, democracy and freedom actually do not exist , and this can just shake it. The national capital of the United States.
What’s more serious is that if a conspiracy theory is established, then other conspiracy theories circulating on the Internet can also be established . For example, Trump is accused of being involved in the Epstein scandal, and even forced minors. The girl had sex with him.
Class contradictions always exist. The Internet is an important fuse. In the eyes of violent machines, movies have always been an important tool for instilling ideas and a means of propaganda . Thinking about it this way, it seems that why Trump has become so popular with this movie. At the same time, I also believe that any ruling class is not happy to see such movies exist. Under the influence of the epidemic, the world has ushered in a crisis. The economic, political, and superpower situation in the United States is even more worrying. A total of nearly two million have been diagnosed, not to mention the one caused by the death of George Freud, a black man. The series of demonstrations and riots are almost a bottom-up revolution, which can be called "ritual collapse and happiness." Racial discrimination is only an inducement, behind which there are hidden gaps between the rich and the poor and class contradictions.
The future of the United States seems to be a foggy landscape, becoming increasingly unclear. By the way, watching the fire from the shore is fine, but there is no need to gloat. Whether it is Trump or the elites, they will always have a retreat, without sympathy or compassion, but the people experience However, the suffering of the people is real, and it also responded to the sentence, "Xing, the people suffer, perish, the people suffer", suffering has always existed and will always exist...
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