It just seems so weird to me, like the oil company is legit intruding on the tribe's land and killing them, so is the message "even if they have a fucked up culture that doesn't justify colonialism"? But I don't buy Roth was trying to send such a nuanced message with his gory cannibal horror movie. If you wanna make a gory 70s horror movie maybe just, idk, switch the tribe with like some inbred hillbilly family, that'd still be problematic in it's own right but at least would have some many weird implications.
I haven't actually seen the film just read a plot synopsis, the fact the main character lies in the end to protect the tribe seems to me to suggest Roth was still trying to condemn what the oil company was doing? Idk I have zero interest in actually watching this movie so I suppose I'll never know for sure.
It just seems so weird to me, like the oil company is legit intruding on the tribe's land and killing them, so is the message "even if they have a fucked up culture that doesn't justify colonialism"? But I don't buy Roth was trying to send such a nuanced message with his gory cannibal horror movie. If you wanna make a gory 70s horror movie maybe just, idk, switch the tribe with like some inbred hillbilly family, that'd still be problematic in it's own right but at least would have some many weird implications.
The message is this is a good thing or at the very least not worth opposing
I haven't actually seen the film just read a plot synopsis, the fact the main character lies in the end to protect the tribe seems to me to suggest Roth was still trying to condemn what the oil company was doing? Idk I have zero interest in actually watching this movie so I suppose I'll never know for sure.