*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.
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