Chapter 50
On a very ordinary weekend, Irving and Bill walked into the theater and bought two tickets for "The Human Purge Plan".
When they arrived at the not-so-large cinema, they were taller, so they went directly to the last row with large leg space and sat in the middle.
Someone came in one after another, and Bill threw popcorn into his mouth one by one. Irving was a little bored and looked around. As the number of people in the theater increased, he scratched his head strangely.
"It's weird today." He murmured.
Bill swallowed his mouth full of popcorn and asked, "How to pull it?"
Irving pointed the front with his chin: "It feels so many black people."
Bill stopped to throw popcorn, looked forward for a while, and said, "There are fewer white people."
This reminded Owen that he was bored before the movie started, so he watched it carefully for a while and said, "In the past, there were white people everywhere. What's wrong with this today? Look over there, there are many black people. Look over there, I've never seen so many Arabs. Oh, and Asians..."
Bill shrugged and continued to deal with popcorn: "What if he doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with us."
Irving nodded, but was still wondering, when he went to any cinema in the past, the audience was basically white, but there were very few white people in this place, only one-third of them?
The ceiling lights went out and the movie began. Irving no longer thought about it and focused on watching the movie.
Los Angeles, a regular theater in North Hollywood.
Ronan sat in the last row and waited for the movie to start screening.
The film has limited publicity investment and no premiere at all. In the last week before the screening, Lionsgate Film bombed advertisements at midnight on the TV station, which was the largest single publicity investment.
As a producer, Ronan bought tickets and entered the theater by himself, contributing a box office.
Since it was Friday night, there were quite a few people in the cinema. Although Halloween was still a week away, the added effect of Halloween on horror movies is quite obvious.
Before turning off the lights, he carefully observed that at least 30 people were sitting in the cinema with hundreds of seats.
Among them, white people are only in their early 10s, most of them are minorities.
I hope these minorities like to see the white family unlucky.
The film started to be screened, and Ronan watched it for thirty minutes, but no one left the stage early, which is a good phenomenon.
As long as you watch a movie without leaving the show for the first thirty minutes, the audience will basically see the end of the show, and the movie is somewhat worthy in their eyes.
Among the several horror films released on the same weekend, "The Human Purge" is not the most expensive, but not the lowest.
As long as the current attendance rate can be maintained, the box office will not be bad.
In Chicago, a screening of "Purge of Humanity" is coming to an end.
Jonathan Rosenbaum from The Chicago Reader put his hands crossed on a chair and stared at the screen, seemingly completely attracted by the movie.
As a well-known film critic who is struggling on the front line, it is a necessary job to watch newly released movies every weekend. He came to the theater tonight and happened to have a "Human Purge Plan" to start, so he entered the theater.
Anyway, Jonathan has to watch the new films that will be drawn this week.
Unlike ordinary film critics, Jonathan has been a film critic for 10 years in the Chicago Reader. In addition to the film itself, he is also very concerned about the issues of culture, society, politics and history.
Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-
The gunshots in the film are particularly loud. The black man who escaped from the protagonist's home and killed two Arabs back. He killed all over the protagonist's home, and soon the ground was covered with corpses.
As the mask was untied, typical white faces appeared one by one. Their bloody and hideous appearance set off the black and Arabs who appeared like saviors were particularly great.
"Not bad, very good." Jonathan nodded repeatedly, "This movie is really good."
Especially the ending, the entire film was instantly sublimated. Even if whites dominate, blacks and minorities must not be missing!
This film must be recommended in the column.
The black-hearted male protagonist died, and the evil white neighbors also died. The black man brought the Arabs back and saved three women.
At the end of the film, Jonathan did not move, closed his eyes and filtered the video in his mind to deepen his impression.
The setting at the beginning is quite interesting and has profound meaning, directly hitting the deepest problems in American society - government and social violence.
Then, the core of the film turns to the issue of race, white supremacy, and minorities are jokes in the eyes of white people.
The father disliked the Arab neighbors and sold them a security system with inferior products. Killing Ye was silent because he did not like black people. Instead, his youngest daughter was full of human brilliance and saved the black man. As a result, it was the black man who found an Arab neighbor with a good relationship with the little girl and saved the remaining family of three.
I heard several viewers next to me say that the child cheated on his father...
Jonathan felt that the few white audiences who said this were helpless: Yes, when human nature is at its darkest, silence and self-protection are of course the best choice, and there are also people who want to resist, which is simply seeking death.
But what will happen if everyone is silent in this society?
When human nature is at its darkest, the brilliance of human nature will often appear.
The little girl saved her family because she saved the black man and treated her Arab neighbors well. The neighbors had decided to kill them long ago. Even if there were no high school students who chased the black man, would they run away?
Think about it, the little girl gets along with her Arab neighbors, is full of sympathy for black people, and children have no racial opinions. Why do so many people grow up like her father?
What's the problem? Jonathan only has one answer: something is wrong with our society and country!
The rights and interests of ethnic minorities must be taken seriously, and they cannot be paid attention to until something goes wrong.
At first glance, this movie is a bit rough horror thriller, but it is actually a good movie that alludes to the real problems of society. Under the shell of thriller and horror, it deeply explores all aspects of human nature, race and society.
"I'll go, what a broken movie."
Some viewers who left the audience walked past and were obviously scolding the movie: "The final winner turned out to be niggers and terrorists. Are you making any mistakes?"
Someone else agrees: "A bad movie!"
Jonathan opened his eyes and saw the two white men, he could only shake his head and sigh. The road to the equal rights movement was still long.
He stood up and walked towards the exit of the cinema. It was time to go back and write a column. He could not let such a good movie with profound practical significance be buried!
New York, Queens, Irving and Bill have just walked out of the theater.
"This movie is good." Owen watched it very well: "Those garbage that look down on us should be as obsessed as white people in the movie."
The slogan has been shouted for many years, but the discrimination is still serious, so Bill kept nodding: "If it were me, I would never go back to save people."
But Owen said, "There are good people among the white people."
Bill thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, Jack and John are our friends."
The two took a car back to the community and walked inside together. They didn't go far and met four or five people they knew.
"Huh, what are you doing?" asked a bald man, "Don't you see you on the court tonight?"
Irving smiled and said, "I'm going to see a movie."
A fat man behind the bald head asked, "Are you going to watch a horror movie?"
Watching horror movies on Halloween has long become popular culture.
Bill continued, "I watched a very pleasant horror movie. By the way, if you have time, you can also watch it. The movie is called "Human Purge Plan", which is great! The black characters in it are very interesting, killing a bunch of bad protein people."
The bald man became interested: "Is that so? Let's go and have a look tomorrow."
Several people talked about the movie and the football match, and it quickly ended.
Targeted publicity and accurate target audience positioning are gradually taking effect. As the number of viewers who see the increase in "Human Purge Plan", the word-of-mouth effect passed down by word of mouth spread rapidly.
Moreover, in the eyes of some professional film critics, this film has interpreted many profound social propositions.
Even Luo Nan did not expect this.
On Saturday, the day after the release of "Human Purge Plan", "Human Purge Plan" appeared in the column recommendations of multiple film critics.
Speaking for minorities and belittle white people as much as possible is the talented and responsibility of a white film critic with a left-minded mind!
Of course, there are also many voices of criticizing bad movies, especially white audiences.
Chapter completed!