Chapter 50: No Help

On a very ordinary weekend, Owen and Bill walked into the theater and bought two tickets to Project Human Clearance.

came to the not big theater, because of their tall stature, the two went directly to the last row with more legroom and sat in the middle position.

People came in one after another, Bill threw popcorn into his mouth one by one, Owen was a little bored, looked around, and scratched his head strangely as the number of people in the theater increased.

"It's weird today. He muttered.

Bill swallowed a mouth full of popcorn and asked, "How?"

Owen nodded his head in front of him: "It feels like a lot of black people." ”

Bill stopped throwing popcorn, looked forward, and said, "There's a little less white." ”

This reminded Owen that he was idle and bored before the movie started, but he watched it carefully for a while, and said: "I used to watch movies and there were white people everywhere, but what's wrong with this today? You see over there, there are a lot of black people." If you look over there, I've never seen so many Arabs. Oh, and Asian......"

Bill shrugged his shoulders and continued to deal with the popcorn: "Whatever, it's none of us. ”

Owen nodded, but he was still wondering in his heart, in the past, when I went to any theater, the audience was basically white, but there were very few whites in this place, and it was just over a third?

The ceiling lights go out and the movie begins, and Owen stops thinking about it and concentrates on going to the movies.

Los Angeles, a regular theater in North Hollywood.

Ronan sat in the last row, waiting for the movie to start.

In the last week before the screening, Lionsgate bombarded advertisements at midnight on TV stations, which was the largest single promotional investment.

As a producer, Ronan bought his own tickets into the theater and contributed to the box office.

Since it was a Friday night, there were not a few people in the theater, and although it was still a week before Halloween, Halloween should have a very obvious effect on horror movies.

Before turning off the lights, he took a closer look, and there were at least 30 people sitting in the hundred-seat theater.

Among them, whites are in their early teens, and most of them are minorities.

Hopefully, these minorities will like to see the white family unlucky.

The film began to be screened, Ronan watched it for thirty minutes, and no one left early, which is a good phenomenon.

For a film, as long as you don't leave the show for the first 30 minutes, the audience will basically see the end of the screening, and the film has some merit in their eyes.

Of the several horror films released that same weekend, "Project Human Clearance" was not the most expensive, but it was also 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 "The Human Eradication Project" has come to an end.

Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader's crossed hands in his chair stared at the screen, seemingly completely captivated by the film.

As a well-known film critic who is struggling on the front line, it is a must to watch new movies every weekend, and he came to the theater tonight, just in time for the opening of "Human Eradication Project", and he entered this theater.

Anyway, Jonathan has to watch the new film next to each other this week.

Unlike the average film critic, who spent 10 years as a film critic at the Chicago Reader, Jonathan is concerned with cultural, social, political, and historical issues in addition to the film itself.

Bang - bang - bang -

The gunfire in the film is extremely loud, and the black man who escaped from the protagonist's house returns with two Arabs and kills all over the protagonist's home, and the ground is soon covered with corpses.

As the mask was lifted, typical white faces appeared, their bloody and hideous appearances, which set off the greatness of blacks and Arabs who appeared like saviors.

"Yes, very good. Jonathan nodded repeatedly, "This film is really good." ”

Especially at the end, the whole film was instantly sublimated, even if whites are dominant, blacks and minorities cannot be missing!

This film must be highlighted in the column.

The black-hearted male protagonist died, the white neighbors who did evil also died, and the black man came back with the Arabs to save the three women.

At the end of the film, Jonathan didn't move, closing his eyes and filtering the video in his mind to deepen the impression.

The premise is interesting and meaningful at the beginning, and it goes straight to the deepest problem of American society - government and social violence.

Then, the core of the film turns to the issue of race, white supremacy, and minorities are all jokes in the eyes of white people.

The father hated the Arab neighbors and sold them shoddy security systems, and the killing night was silent because he didn't like the black people, but the youngest daughter was full of humanity and saved the black man, and it turned out that the black man found an Arab neighbor who had a good relationship with the little girl and saved the remaining family of three.

I heard a few viewers next to me say that the child was cheating on his father......

Jonathan felt that the few white viewers who said this were hopeless: yes, in the darkest time of human nature, silence and self-preservation are of course the best choice, and there are people who want to resist and kill themselves.

But what will happen if everyone in this society is silent?

In the darkest times of human nature, the brilliance of human nature is often revealed.

The little girl saved her family because she saved the black people and treated her Arab neighbors well, and the neighbors had already decided to kill them, even if there were no high school students who were chasing down the black people, would they have been able to escape?

Think about it, why do so many of the little girls grow up to be like their fathers, when they get along well with their Arab neighbors, who are sympathetic to blacks, and children who are not ethnic?

Jonathan has only one answer: something is wrong with our society and our country!

The rights and interests of ethnic minorities must be taken seriously and cannot wait until something goes wrong.

This film is a somewhat rough horror thriller at first glance, but it is actually a good film that alludes to the realities of society, and underneath the shell of horror and horror, it deeply explores all aspects of human nature, race, and society.

"I'm going, what a broken movie. ”

An audience member who left the theater walked by, obviously scolding the film: "The final winner turned out to be and terrorists, is there any mistake?"

There are also people who meet: "A bad movie!"

Jonathan opened his eyes and saw the two white men, and could only shake his head and sigh, the road to equality is still long.

He stood up and walked towards the exit of the theater, it's time to go back and write a column, we can't let such a good movie with profound practical significance be buried!

New York, Queens, Owen and Bill have just walked out of the theater.

"It's a good film. Owen watched it very well: "The garbage that looks down on us should be finished like the white people in the film." ”

The slogan has been shouted for many years, but the discrimination is still serious, so Bill nodded vigorously: "If it were me, I would never go back to save people." ”

Owen said, "There are good people among white people. ”

Bill thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, Jack and John are our friends. ”

The two of them hitchhiked back to the community and walked inside together, and they didn't go far and met four or five people they knew.

"Hey, what are you doing?" asked a bald head, "I didn't see you on the pitch tonight?"

Owen laughed with white teeth: "I'm going to the movies." ”

A fat man behind the bald head asked, "Did you go to see a horror movie?"

Watching horror movies on Halloween has long been a part of popular culture.

Bill continued: "I watched a very cool horror movie. By the way, you can also check it out when you have time, it's called "Human Eradication Project", and it's very good! The black characters in it are very interesting, killing a bunch of bad protein people. ”

The bald head became interested: "Really, I'll go see it tomorrow." ”

A few people talked and talked about movies and ball games, and soon dispersed.

Targeted publicity and accurate target audience positioning are gradually playing a role, and as the number of viewers who see "Human Eradication Plan" increases, the word-of-mouth effect of word of mouth spreads rapidly.

And in the eyes of some professional film critics, this film has been interpreted as a number of profound social propositions.

This was something that even Ronan did not expect.

On Saturday, the day after the release of "Project Human Clearance," "Project Human Clearance" appeared in several critics' columns.

Speaking for minorities and belittling whites as much as possible is the natural duty of left-minded white film critics!

Of course, there are also many voices scolding bad movies, especially white audiences.

Just one day after its release, the word-of-mouth of "Human Eradication Project" was divided, showing a serious polarization trend.