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title = "Greenland (2020)"
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date = 2021-03-22
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tags = ["reviews", "movies", "movies:2021", "released:2020", "stars:1"]
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[Wikipedia Summary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)):
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The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying
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comet races to Earth.
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If you have some American friend that keeps asking "Why the world doesn't like
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America?", you can ask them to watch this movie and learn.
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The movie is, basically, "[2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film))"
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upside-down: Instead of destruction coming from the centre of the Earth itself,
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it's coming from space. But, for some reason, governments built some sort of arc
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to save people -- selected people. And our hero was selected, even when his
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family have health issues -- his kid has diabetes and, thus, shouldn't be
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selected, as only healthy families can join the "arc". In a way, it makes sense,
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you don't want to spend energy and food with people that could die any moment if
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you want to save the human race, right?
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So far, no reason to dislike the United States, right?
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But then, you have this amazing line, told by a newscaster: "Meteors are falling
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all over the planet! This could be the end of this great nation."
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HOLD YOUR FREAKING HORSES! Meteors are falling everywhere, *all around the
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planet* but they are worried about the *great nation*? Fuck your entitlement.
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But that's not enough. Surely Gerard Butler does nothing to hide his accent and,
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while hitchhiking on a truck on the way to his father-in-law house, marked as
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the reunion place after he got separated from his wife and kid, he mentions he
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was called to another fellow hitchhiker, but couldn't board. And then, another
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guy in the same truck notices this and asks "But should the government give
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space for people like you?" (or something around those lines). "America is for
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Americans!" Fight insures and some friendly black guy is killed, 'cause of
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course the black person has to die. All for the good of the *great nation*.
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Not enough? Ok, let me give you the kicker: The arc is actually a subterranean
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base built on... GREENLAND! It's not even in freaking United States, the *great
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nation* had to build their safe *somewhere else*!
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Also, being the hero and such, Gerard Butler and his family finally reach
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Greenland and find the base and they are took without a peep. Why would you
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accept people coming from everywhere, with no checks, if you were refusing sick
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people *in the first place*?
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I'm pretty sure the general plot is pretty awesome idea -- even if it feels a
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bit like [Deep Impact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film)) -- but
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it seems if focused too much into one piece of the planet. Heck, even [The
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Core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core) managed to show the whole world
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being destroyed.
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PS: By the words here, it may seem that I want to destroy MURRICA or
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whatever. That's not the point; thing is, sometimes the way USA is presented
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around the world may give this feeling of "they feel superior", but I'm pretty
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sure only Fox News would report the "dead of our great nation", but everyone
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else would report the global problem as a global problem and the heckneck that
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hates anyone not-American is part of a very small portion of the Americans. And
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to light the mood: "I don't hate Americans, I have friends that are!"
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