I honestly don’t get the point of that movie. It seemed like Roth was just a fan of gory 70s horror movies and wanted to make an homage, but then he made the protagonists pro-indigenous right activists? But when people said that was weird and asked him wtf his point was he just dismissed the idea that there was anything political about the film… but you made the narrative choice to have the teens being killed be activists?
FYI in the OG Cannibal Holocaust the westerns who get slaughter actually provoke the tribe into it to make a exploitative documentary film, yeah they’re still portrayed as brutal and savage but also you get the impression they were only really savage to each other until these assholes showed up. Still a fucked up movie but at least it was being made under the pretext of just being a mindless exploitative horror movie.
For sure CH’s message was that the westerners were the monsters. I was just trying to be cheeky that GI was very much just another cannibal movie. Similar to how Thanksgiving was just an 80s slasher. Roth basically just makes old movies and people keep giving him money to do it.
It just seems so weird to me, like the oil company is legit intruding on the tribe’s land and killing them, so is the message “even if they have a fucked up culture that doesn’t justify colonialism”? But I don’t buy Roth was trying to send such a nuanced message with his gory cannibal horror movie. If you wanna make a gory 70s horror movie maybe just, idk, switch the tribe with like some inbred hillbilly family, that’d still be problematic in it’s own right but at least would have some many weird implications.
I haven’t actually seen the film just read a plot synopsis, the fact the main character lies in the end to protect the tribe seems to me to suggest Roth was still trying to condemn what the oil company was doing? Idk I have zero interest in actually watching this movie so I suppose I’ll never know for sure.
I honestly don’t get the point of that movie. It seemed like Roth was just a fan of gory 70s horror movies and wanted to make an homage, but then he made the protagonists pro-indigenous right activists? But when people said that was weird and asked him wtf his point was he just dismissed the idea that there was anything political about the film… but you made the narrative choice to have the teens being killed be activists?
FYI in the OG Cannibal Holocaust the westerns who get slaughter actually provoke the tribe into it to make a exploitative documentary film, yeah they’re still portrayed as brutal and savage but also you get the impression they were only really savage to each other until these assholes showed up. Still a fucked up movie but at least it was being made under the pretext of just being a mindless exploitative horror movie.
For sure CH’s message was that the westerners were the monsters. I was just trying to be cheeky that GI was very much just another cannibal movie. Similar to how Thanksgiving was just an 80s slasher. Roth basically just makes old movies and people keep giving him money to do it.
It just seems so weird to me, like the oil company is legit intruding on the tribe’s land and killing them, so is the message “even if they have a fucked up culture that doesn’t justify colonialism”? But I don’t buy Roth was trying to send such a nuanced message with his gory cannibal horror movie. If you wanna make a gory 70s horror movie maybe just, idk, switch the tribe with like some inbred hillbilly family, that’d still be problematic in it’s own right but at least would have some many weird implications.
The message is this is a good thing or at the very least not worth opposing
I haven’t actually seen the film just read a plot synopsis, the fact the main character lies in the end to protect the tribe seems to me to suggest Roth was still trying to condemn what the oil company was doing? Idk I have zero interest in actually watching this movie so I suppose I’ll never know for sure.