Movie review: Greenland

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+title = "Greenland (2020)"
+date = 2021-03-22
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+[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.
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+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!"