From 3347fb5d4b3b6a2772010f454da9a072a91a95fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:28:43 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Movie review: Greenland --- content/reviews/movies/greenland.md | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/movies/greenland.md diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/greenland.md b/content/reviews/movies/greenland.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abd6853 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/greenland.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ ++++ +title = "Greenland (2020)" +date = 2021-03-22 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["reviews", "movies", "movies:2021", "released:2020", "stars:1"] ++++ + +[Wikipedia Summary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)): +The film follows a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying +comet races to Earth. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1)}} + +If you have some American friend that keeps asking "Why the world doesn't like +America?", you can ask them to watch this movie and learn. + +The movie is, basically, "[2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film))" +upside-down: Instead of destruction coming from the centre of the Earth itself, +it's coming from space. But, for some reason, governments built some sort of arc +to save people -- selected people. And our hero was selected, even when his +family have health issues -- his kid has diabetes and, thus, shouldn't be +selected, as only healthy families can join the "arc". In a way, it makes sense, +you don't want to spend energy and food with people that could die any moment if +you want to save the human race, right? + +So far, no reason to dislike the United States, right? + +But then, you have this amazing line, told by a newscaster: "Meteors are falling +all over the planet! This could be the end of this great nation." + +HOLD YOUR FREAKING HORSES! Meteors are falling everywhere, *all around the +planet* but they are worried about the *great nation*? Fuck your entitlement. + +But that's not enough. Surely Gerard Butler does nothing to hide his accent and, +while hitchhiking on a truck on the way to his father-in-law house, marked as +the reunion place after he got separated from his wife and kid, he mentions he +was called to another fellow hitchhiker, but couldn't board. And then, another +guy in the same truck notices this and asks "But should the government give +space for people like you?" (or something around those lines). "America is for +Americans!" Fight insures and some friendly black guy is killed, 'cause of +course the black person has to die. All for the good of the *great nation*. + +Not enough? Ok, let me give you the kicker: The arc is actually a subterranean +base built on... GREENLAND! It's not even in freaking United States, the *great +nation* had to build their safe *somewhere else*! + +Also, being the hero and such, Gerard Butler and his family finally reach +Greenland and find the base and they are took without a peep. Why would you +accept people coming from everywhere, with no checks, if you were refusing sick +people *in the first place*? + +I'm pretty sure the general plot is pretty awesome idea -- even if it feels a +bit like [Deep Impact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film)) -- but +it seems if focused too much into one piece of the planet. Heck, even [The +Core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core) managed to show the whole world +being destroyed. + +PS: By the words here, it may seem that I want to destroy MURRICA or +whatever. That's not the point; thing is, sometimes the way USA is presented +around the world may give this feeling of "they feel superior", but I'm pretty +sure only Fox News would report the "dead of our great nation", but everyone +else would report the global problem as a global problem and the heckneck that +hates anyone not-American is part of a very small portion of the Americans. And +to light the mood: "I don't hate Americans, I have friends that are!"