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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Greenland (2020)</h1> |
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2021-03-22 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies/">#movies</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies-2021/">#movies:2021</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/released-2020/">#released:2020</a> |
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)">Wikipedia Summary</a>: |
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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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>The movie is, basically, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)">2012</a>" |
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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?</p> |
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<p>So far, no reason to dislike the United States, right?</p> |
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<p>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."</p> |
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<p>HOLD YOUR FREAKING HORSES! Meteors are falling everywhere, <em>all around the |
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planet</em> but they are worried about the <em>great nation</em>? Fuck your entitlement.</p> |
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<p>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 <em>great nation</em>.</p> |
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<p>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 <em>great |
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nation</em> had to build their safe <em>somewhere else</em>!</p> |
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<p>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 <em>in the first place</em>?</p> |
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<p>I'm pretty sure the general plot is pretty awesome idea -- even if it feels a |
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bit like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(film)">Deep Impact</a> -- but |
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it seems if focused too much into one piece of the planet. Heck, even <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core">The |
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Core</a> managed to show the whole world |
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being destroyed.</p> |
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<p>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!"</p> |
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