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#Abduction afterparty movie
In many ways, The Hunt cannot seem to decide whether it is a movie in which sneering coastal elites argue about whether it is okay to say Black or African-American immediately after murdering two people or if it is a movie that wants to comment on cancel culture, privilege, and class division. Betty Gilpin eventually takes the lead as a steely, mostly silent badass, and then The Hunt attempts to get more nuanced. In one of The Hunt’s more clever moves, the film repeatedly centers on a number of different characters as the apparent protagonist (including Arrow’s Justin Hartley, American Horror Story’s Emma Roberts, and The Afterparty’s Ike Barinholtz), only to see them get suddenly and gorily killed.
It becomes quickly clear that a group of lower-income individuals coded as being politically conservative have been abducted and are being hunted by a group coded as being fancy, champagne-drinking progressives. The violence and social commentary will remain at about that level for the rest of the movie.
The action swiftly moves to the cabin of a private jet, where It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s passive-aggressively talks down to a flight attendant while turning down caviar because he “had caviar last night.” Then a confused, blue-collar-looking man bursts into the cabin only for Hilary Swank to kill him by stabbing him through the eye with a stiletto heel. The movie opens with a text thread, the most cinematic of visuals, that eventually refers to hunting “ deplorables,” the infamous term used by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a 2016 speech that was quickly seized as a talking point by her opponent Donald Trump’s campaign. The Hunt’s take on the idea is: what if rich American progressives hunted working-class conservatives?Īs directed by Craig Zobel, The Hunt frequently tiptoes to the edge of being a very dark comedy, but never quite gets there. The fundamental idea of the elite hunting the downtrodden for sport has been redone with Ice-T fighting Rutger Hauer, Jean-Claude Van Damme being rescued by Wilford Brimley on horseback, and John Leguizamo being hunted by the principal from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Schoedsack adaptation of the story is a classic of early cinema.
In essence, the movie is yet another iteration of The Most Dangerous Game, the 1924 short story by Richard Connell in which a big-game hunter finds himself being hunted by a mysterious aristocrat on an isolated island. The Hunt has a premise that is simultaneously one of Hollywood’s most beloved and so toxic that the film struggled to be released.
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