03-21-2009, 11:41 PM
Never add movies to your Netflix queue when you're hungry.
I suppose this could be classified as a Euro-Thriller, in which case Dr. Ivor Yeti should sit up and take notice.
Then again, I doubt very much this is what he had in mind.
Italian movie-making can be trippy. The director rounds up an international cast and has them all speak their native tongue throughout. Afterwards, dubbing is done as needed for the movie's release in any given country.
I say this as introduction to the following enigma:
Here in the States, when conversing with a woman, we might say, "Would you like some water, ma'm?" or "Do you need help with that bag, lady?" But to my knowledge we're not in the habit of saying, "Would you like something to eat, twat?" I've never heard Alex Trebek say, "Today we have three twats competing." And while I've given some thought to testing it out on the street, I've decided to wait until we have nationalized health insurance.
Yet it's used repeatedly in this movie, and the women never seem disturbed by it in the least.
Was it a weird dubbing artifact? Possibly. But I'd swear the man saying it wasn't dubbed.
Oh well. Minor detail. Time for the plot. A woman is writing her thesis on how cannibalism is a myth. White men made it up as a way to demonize the natives, making colonization easier. To prove her point, she leads an expedition deep into the Amazon to a place rumored to have cannibals.
Shit soon happens.
Lots of animals die on camera. People get tortured and killed, and eaten. Some get eaten alive. It's kind of a nasty film, the more I think about it. At one point a large tailless whip scorpion clambers up close to a lady, and a dude says, Don't move! Then he steps on it. They identify it as a black widow. That's the one and only goof in the whole movie.
Okay, time for a spoiler. It's the one thing that I felt redeemed it. We're talking the ending. The only one to survive is the lady doing the thesis, who is terribly traumatized by the sight of so many people being eaten. Months later, back in the States, she is given a big award at some academic function in honor of her new book, titled, "Cannibalism -- End of a Myth." Yep, she claims that the others were eaten by crocodiles when their canoe capsized. Essentially, in a Hail Mary twenty years into the future to the Bush administration, she stuck to her own pet theory in defiance of the cold hard facts staring her hungrily in the face, and she emerged victorious and wealthy for it.
I suppose this could be classified as a Euro-Thriller, in which case Dr. Ivor Yeti should sit up and take notice.
Then again, I doubt very much this is what he had in mind.
Italian movie-making can be trippy. The director rounds up an international cast and has them all speak their native tongue throughout. Afterwards, dubbing is done as needed for the movie's release in any given country.
I say this as introduction to the following enigma:
Here in the States, when conversing with a woman, we might say, "Would you like some water, ma'm?" or "Do you need help with that bag, lady?" But to my knowledge we're not in the habit of saying, "Would you like something to eat, twat?" I've never heard Alex Trebek say, "Today we have three twats competing." And while I've given some thought to testing it out on the street, I've decided to wait until we have nationalized health insurance.
Yet it's used repeatedly in this movie, and the women never seem disturbed by it in the least.
Was it a weird dubbing artifact? Possibly. But I'd swear the man saying it wasn't dubbed.
Oh well. Minor detail. Time for the plot. A woman is writing her thesis on how cannibalism is a myth. White men made it up as a way to demonize the natives, making colonization easier. To prove her point, she leads an expedition deep into the Amazon to a place rumored to have cannibals.
Shit soon happens.
Lots of animals die on camera. People get tortured and killed, and eaten. Some get eaten alive. It's kind of a nasty film, the more I think about it. At one point a large tailless whip scorpion clambers up close to a lady, and a dude says, Don't move! Then he steps on it. They identify it as a black widow. That's the one and only goof in the whole movie.
Okay, time for a spoiler. It's the one thing that I felt redeemed it. We're talking the ending. The only one to survive is the lady doing the thesis, who is terribly traumatized by the sight of so many people being eaten. Months later, back in the States, she is given a big award at some academic function in honor of her new book, titled, "Cannibalism -- End of a Myth." Yep, she claims that the others were eaten by crocodiles when their canoe capsized. Essentially, in a Hail Mary twenty years into the future to the Bush administration, she stuck to her own pet theory in defiance of the cold hard facts staring her hungrily in the face, and she emerged victorious and wealthy for it.
