The Green Inferno

Just finished watching the trailer for the upcoming movie The Green Inferno. I don't know if I've ever been more excited for a movie that I don't think I could watch. Because director Eli Roth is one sick puppy.

The movie is about a group of young, idealistic people traveling to the Amazon rainforest to try and save a tribe from extinction. I've seen references to "hashtag activism," and "virtue signalling," but these kids are at least willing to get out of their comfort zone.

The tagline for the movie is, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished." I was also thinking of "The Road To Hell is Paved With Good Intentions." Because the tribe they meet is a bunch of cannibals who torture and eat them.

Actress Lorena Izzo is depicted as surviving a plane crash in the jungle, only to wind up bound and captive, in a canoe heading downstream. Her helplessness is given a lurid, objectifying quality. She is far from home, with its campus speech codes and its safe rooms. She has become truly objectified. She is quite literally a bag of meat.

I presume that the beta males that go along for the trip are completely emasculated, in both the literal and the figurative sense.

There are murmurs of protest at the portrayal of indigenous peoples in the movie. This manufactured outrage is straight from the cultural marxist script: All indigenous people are to be portrayed as noble savages, living in harmony with their environment, taking only what they need from Gaia to survive. The pre-industrial native is not to be portrayed as warlike or hostile in any way. But what is more harmonious with nature than eating pink, overfed invaders?

The protestors should instead view the fate of the earnest activists through the lens of colonialism. A bunch of ignorant white colonists are going to try to impose their values on the native population. Though they may eschew the values of capitalism, they are equipped with the latest fruits of capitalism, from airplanes to cargo pants to smart phones. The most desirable and satisfying response from the natives would be to resist colonization, and then eat the invaders to gain whatever powers they may have had.

I wish Roth well with this movie. I'm still hoping for a Hostel 3. He could build another whole movie about Elite Hunting's Sasha, who likes to sip espresso in a sidewalk cafe and receive boxes via motorcycle courier with severed heads inside.