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Another way to look at this movie

posted 5 years ago by ecrispy (3)
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This movie is getting rave reviews. Imagine the following -

Mexican drug cartel's boss has his son kidnapped and taken to the US. He sends a special forces operative and team to get him back. Who proceeds to destroy half the city, murder and kill hundreds of cops and innocent civilians, all of it just to save some scumbag's son who btw thinks its 'brave' that all these other people are being killed to save him.

Would audiences have cheered and rooted for that? Hell no. But hey, its just brown skinned Indians/Bangladeshis, they're barely human, plus they are poor so who cares. And the film specifically focuses on slums and poor sections, and all the army/cops never have their faces shown, just to make it even more obvious that these people's lives don't matter. Even Black Hawk Down wasn't this blatant about showing white supremacy.

[–] AP (5295) 5 years ago

There are plenty of American movies where those sort of things happen.

[–] triplea (3577) 3 years ago

... that movie literally exists several times over and people love it.

Are you so racist that you're saying films cannot be based in India now?

[–] BeaSouth (3567) 2 years ago

In the movie I saw, the army commander was corrupt and his troops were shooting at the Indian kid or trying to kidnap him. The commander was taking orders from a Bangladeshi gangster who threw a 9 year old off the roof. I also saw a lot of cops / soldiers killed by the Saju Rav Indian special forces guy who worked for the father and ended up arguably being the main hero of the movie. i don’t know, maybe you’d say that’s “brown supremacy.”

[–] ManToTrust (1663) 2 years ago

I mean it’s not the brown skin that makes them barely human. It’s the absolute filth and moral corruption they live in that makes them barely human.