Posted on 08/12/2019 11:18:20 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I do not find John Nolte convincing - or impartial. (I had already read that at the source.) One could just as easily say that it would discourage such. Either effect is a separate issue from what exactly the film portrays.
The Hunt, done by the man who was booed at the Israel Film Festival, and who masterminded the anti-conservative The Purge franchise, was not going to be an unambiguously pro-Deplorable story, no matter how Whollyweird-loving Nolte (or the writer at NR) spin it.
Full disclosure: I do not consider Nolte a conservative; I consider him a rather amoral secularist with libertarian/anarchist inclinations.
He literally reveres Woody Allen and Quentin Tarentino, both of whom I instinctively have always avoided as creepy, egocentric perverts. I certainly do not consider them creative geniuses.
Nolte also ends many articles or reviews with, “I miss T&A!” That is not my idea of professional, conservative journalism.
That is not mere ad hominem. My point is that I do not trust his philosophical compass - at all.
Sort of. From what I understand it's complicated.
It's not that the movie is saying "Go liberals. Deplorables are not human. Hunt and kill them." There was more complexity than that.
The liberal hunters are the villains. What they're doing is shown to be evil and you root for the heroine.
But the heroine isn't a typical deplorable either, so in theory viewers might identify with her and root for her, but still think hating and killing Trump supporters is a good thing.
So it's complicated. The original outraged response to the film wasn't entirely wrong -- or entirely right.
But like I said, I'm getting this all second-, third- or fourth-hand, so I could be wrong.
“So now somebody make a social thriller about hunting bat-shit crazy liberals ! Or would that never happen????”
If it happened, it might be called “Death Wish.”
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