I've read a lot of reviews complaining that this movie is racist or whatever, even though throughout the rest of review they're saying how intense it is. To anyone who's seen this movie yet, is this really that "racist," or are those critics just trying to get offended?
shareIt's not racist, it's just that people are very sensitive these days.
But there is this one thing that irritated the hell out of me: Do you have AMERICAN newspapers? I'm an AMERICAN, don't touch me! *facepalm*
the premise of this story employs xenophobic sentiment of the audience to create intense atmosphere.
but the story is not racist per se. there are good guys, bad guys, and morally ambiguous guys among both races. although bad white guys are not directly shown, they were mentioned.
I personally didn't find it racist. I know there is a definite thing that is categorized as racist, but there are also branches of that that can also be defined as racist––like the things you might not think are rude or insensitive. I am not that educated on it, but I wasn't thinking it was racist. The movie is very intense and I was shook up the whole entire time. Starts off thrilling, and ends thrilling.
shareI just love it when white people try to decide if something is racist or not to another group of people. What gives you the right to decide how someone else should feel? More of that white privilege you deny so vehemently.
shareYeah its logical of course that those who benefit economically and politically of defining racism should own 100% of the interpretation of racism.
shareTheir simple minds see white people chased by Asians, which they start crying racism from both sides.
Some of these critics are supportive of the entities that this film is trying to expose and further the racism claim to keep people in the dark.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781922/board/thread/250947377
The film touches close to this book:
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
An extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Perkins writes about the Enron-style of cooking the books to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn’t afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies.
Pierce Brosnan states that when these governments can't pay up, the corporations take control of the infrastructures, which occurred with the water in this film, and in real life with Bolivia back in 2000 during the water wars.
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It's a setting issue. Same happened with the video game Resident Evil 5, which was set in Africa. You got yourself a white guy and a black chick shooting black people for reasons and it's racist. Here we got ourselves a couple of white people defending against brown, slant-eyed people set in asia and it's racist. We never dwell on white people defending/killing white people now do we? It's all BS to me. It's just entertainment. So just enjoy the film.
shareI agree. As i put in my reply, different people take different things in different ways. One can find it offense for any reason. I'm glad you brought up Resident Evil 5. Set in Africa. I was thinking of Blood Diamond which also was set in Africa. Both did have the main protagonist as a white male. So its true. No matter where a movie takes place there will be people there to take offense. Its not the intention of the people who made the movie. Its just how over analyzed that some of these movies are taken. I'm Asian, though i am Korean and not from Thailand, but things like this simply don't offend me the least. That comedy that came out called The Interview, which deals with a lot of Asian/Korean stereotypes did not bother me at all, but i hear that there are a number of Asians that did find it offense. Probably the biggest thing that angered people was them targeting a real life political figure. But he's an a**hole. So seeing him die made me laugh.
shareI just watched No Escape. I fully enjoyed the movie and i always thought Pierce Brosnan was awesome and Owen Wilson showed that he is good even outside of comedy. Scenes in the movie that where considered intensely violent where called "Intense" for good reason. Anything that has the theme of anti-government uprising, attempted sexual assault, and mass destruction involving young children is enough to offend anyone. As you know all people are different. So what is offense to one person will not phase the next. My opinion is NO. This movie in no way had any type of racial offense that was intentionally targeting a specific race or religon. Others could have taken the brutality and animalistic behavior of the rebels as portraying the country to have hostile citizens. If you watched Blood Diamond, although not the same, but share similarities. As both movies have the government vs. the "people" story line. But in all actuality, i did not find the movie to be racist at all. And i am sure that the people involved with this film did not intend to offend anyone. As i said, its simply how one interprets the film.
shareThats not racist, just political, and entertaining
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