I just watched the preview, and read the plot premise on IMDBs website. Reads like a knockoff of Hunger Games - evil wealthy elites using an underclass for sport. And, like the HG, the heroine turns the tables on the elites. I think they were smart to change the title if it was in fact originally called “Blue State, Red State” and as divided as the nation is politically (coupled with recent politically motivated mass murder) I would say the timing isn’t great.
From what I can see, however, the story puts the “red state” underclass in a heroic light.
The three recent shooting events are much more important than a fantasy movie that may not get released. We all should be more worried about those real-life events, the people who committed them and how we can prevent those tragedies from happening ever again.
I already saw that movie, it’s called Surviving the Game with Ice-T, Rutger Hauer (RIP), and Gary Busey.
“A homeless man [Ice-T] is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.”
I haven’t because I don’t do horror films, but the premise as I recall is white people stealing the bodies of young black people. That should be every bit as outrageous by your theory as some white people hunting black people.
This is an example of how our culture has shifted to include more extreme things within the boundaries of acceptability.
It’s not jut about killing. It’s about so many facets of human existence. Things that simply were not part of the social mores decades ago are commonplace today.
And a lot of it is dismissed as "It’s only … (whatever…) "
This movie is just another example. It will not get nixed. It’ll probably even do well at the box office.
Many things that used to be extreme back then are getting encircled within the boundaries of acceptability (or at least tolerance). And it takes something ultra-extreme (like mass murder) to raise culture-wide concerns.
So a movie about a group of white men hunting a black men is not a valid response to, and I quote, “Change it to straight hunting gays, or whites hunting blacks and watch the outrage.”? It was a direct answer to your specific comment - which part of that are you missing? Completely unrelated?
