I failed to suspend my disbelief watching that movie because the opposing forces were California and Texas together.
They basically jumped through hoops to avoid making any kind of political point or statement at all, besides like “war bad”
I appreciated the cinematography and the subject they were exploring, I just agree that they maybe told too much about the background to kill the immersion. Maybe if they had not said who was fighting and why and just went with the idea that everyone already knew and didn’t talk about it. Sometimes leaving it up to the viewer’s imagination works better than trying to show everything.
I think I got maybe 15 minutes into that disjointed clusterfuck of a movie. I had some high hopes too. The trailer made it seem like the plausible future but that shit just went in circles and had nothing to say.
That scene was a total flop to me given the fact that it ends with the guy choosing to shoot the only non-Americans and letting all of the Americans live, regardless of what “kind” they were??? It basically reinforces the complete opposite point than it seems to be trying to make?
My recollection is that he killed the non-American first (to set dramatic tension), but was planning on killing the rest and just looking for an excuse. They escaped before he was able.
Will rewatch when I can play sound on break.
He was absolutely going to kill everyone. He was a stereotype extreme (maybe) of people we have in reality, pushed to the edge and making the choice because they have the gun.
