90-Minute Red Box: "The Hunt" a Great Wind Down from "Full Gear" Weekend.

 *Blog post started on November 9, 2020.

 

All the ratty clothes that I do not want Mom to throw out have been washed. I have yet to open up the vape from my last NuEra visit, but when you have a bit of liquidity to your finance, further stockpiling seemed like a wise move. If only it was not next door to my laundromat, the dispensary might be out of mind. Mooching water from my places of work has been optimized. This all means that I am ready to hibernate for the winter.

 

At least I am more ready for winter than those Charmin Bears. Get a bidet. You can use less with Charmin, but the fur must still require more bog rolls than what I use. Then again, they might be stuck on the product because of a perineal fixation, but bidet manages that better.

 

The hibernation talk is because I am just feeling exhausted. It might be the diabetes, but the sudden onset of this throws me off. After all of the reestablishing a relationship with OSF, I think these symptoms have suddenly become prevalent. Or it could just be 2020.

 

2020 is perhaps the year that Trump's America deserved. Too bad they just reject any kind of suggestion in the name of liberty. Since we all know they are delusional, it is easy just to ignore them when their deity will soon be forced off his pedestal. If you consider his health and skin color, calling him a golden cow is not much of a stretch. You figure his moronic followers are more aware of the Old Testament than the new based on the values they display.

 

If only they understood irony. If they did, we would not have to worry about hate crimes before the term ends. I am little bit concerned for the President Elect with a Friday the 13th coming up. Otherwise, a weekend with great wrestling and a decent 90-minute flick, it is the closest I have been to being carefree in a while.

 

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My Other Hunt this Past Weekend: "The Hunt"

When a liberal elite's server was hacked, a text thread about a manor in Vermont was leaked online. It suggests that these elite gather up deplorable conservatives, take them to this manor, and hunt them for sport to serve as an outlet for their frustration with them pushing the racist, homophobic, and antiscience views of the 45th president. The far right conspiracies' web presences have dubbed it Manorgate.

 

If this is happening, the left does not have to worry about their safety, so no one with any sense takes it seriously. For those who lack that, a fresh dozen of likely QAnon followers have woken up in the woods in what seems to be the middle of nowhere. In a clearing, they find a crate filled with weapons. Once they have all grabbed their firearm of choice, they soon realize they are the latest guests at the Manor. It is a controlled environment, so there is likely no escape. Here's hoping the stereotypes about militia fans are true because their lives depend on those pseudo military skills.

"The Hunt" was the satire I needed to cleanse my palette of the matriarchal suggestion of "The Second Civil War". It finds the middle ground to judge both sides from and provides a story where stuff actually happens instead of just trying to be clever with dialogue. If there is a flaw, it is that the violence could have been more grindhouse inspired for my taste.

The humor comes from the absurdity of the situations and the characters. So I think that calls for absurd violence instead of generally brief (yet graphic) or implied brutality. Gore is absurd, thus appropriate. Especially when the film's premise sparked immediate controversy and was so volatile that the release date got pushed back due to the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings. If you are going to even release such a feature, you should go for broke.

Fortunately, the story itself is solid and involving enough that you could have almost gotten away with a near bloodless production. The beauty of the feature is that the viewer cannot like anyone on either side except our primary survivor who never mentions their politics in the picture. You want everyone to get their comeuppance except the character with the live and let live attitude outside the Manor and kill or be killed in it. Everyone is going to die in a story like this, but it is rare that you get to applaud every death.

Production wise, there is not much to complain about. Director Craig Zobel has some difficulty filming action in closed off environments, but this is a hunt, so most of the kills are sudden and no one gets to fight back. Because of this, any director could have taken on this project, but Zobel was brave enough to do so.

Obviously, the script is brilliant. It shows the world from a centrist light and avoids telling the audience how to resolve the issues. Anyone with an extreme viewpoint is a danger to the masses, so do not become one of them is the moral. The liberal Hollywood trick to it is that the left in this film has a point to make. Good satire still needs the viewer to pick a side. That side characters could be flawed and awful, but their message is still valid.

 

All "The Second Civil War" did was just say identity politics are going to ruin the nation. It did not dare say that there was away to avoid it. Otherwise, it is a great cast delivering dialogue that can offer funny premises, but nothing is done with them. "The Hunt" delivers on the absurd nature of both sides with the moral of do not let you politics make you a douche. "The Boys" has a similar message at the end of the second season, but I got to be careful with my C-bombs.

"The Hunt" provides the audience with a crazy premise and delivers on the promise of a high moron kill count. Both sides can enjoy it and reflect on who they really are as people, provided they have the patience and stomach for the feature.

 

As a straight satire, I had as much fun watching "The Hunt" as I did "Doctor Strangelove". If a director of Kubrick's skill had directed this, it would be a modern masterpiece. But we all like looking over Da Vinci's sketches, so give this a view.