Friday night Movie Review - The Hunt

Alas, the moment you have all been waiting for - a jolly good post that’s actually mine.

Tonight I have sat down, a tired, but pleased man. Me and my mother have watched a bloodthirsty movie appropriately deemed - The Hunt.

Directed by Craig Zobel, ‘The Hunt’ encapsulates a ‘Hunger-Games’-type horror/comedy, whereby a group of nice civilians wake up wearing Nezuko mouth-gags in the middle of a forest. It is here that these desperate dogs go looking for answers, before finding an ominous crate - filled with weapons to defend themselves. They’re attacked. Men and women run for their lives, getting popped, bopped and in the case of one unfortunate woman - impaled on some Vietnamese punji stakes.

Inevitably, all captives besides one perish horribly. The perpetrators? Rich Liberal elites with some angsty attitude towards a bunch of Republican conspiracy theorists - accusing the Liberals of this exact human-hunting ritual. Ironically, this “twisting of truth” was apparently wrong; so after the rich people got mad and said “oi, we would never do that”, they did it. In another sense, a motif of oversensitivity is demonstrated humorously in the rich perpetrators, or as someone gets called in the film - “snowflake”.

Overall, a proficient effort at political contrast was made in ‘The Hunt’. The naivety and superiority complex of the rich murderers as opposed to the arrogance and varying levels of racism, anti-refugee and anti-LGBTQ elements in the Republican victims show minimal differentiation.

Riley-Rating for ‘The Hunt’:

6/10 - would probably not watch again.

Cheers guys, goodnight!

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