Yesterday I
watched Renny Harlin's 5 Days of War (you can read my comments at the NinjaDixon tumblr), a good b-action movie disguised as a message-movie disguised as
a b-action movie. Everything at once. Today I watched a similar movie, Uwe
Boll's Darfur . Now, most idiots out there have
seen House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark and decided that everything after
that is the same thing. Now, I like these two movies - they are simple
entertainment made for a lot less money than shitstorms like the Transformers
or Twilight-franchises. What's interesting with Boll as a filmmakers is for
every "silly" movie, and with that I mean über-commercial
popcorn-movie he makes something totally different. Movies like Tunnel Rats,
Stoic, Seed, Max Schmeling etc is very different from House of the Dead. They
aren't even "fun" violent movies, they are plain disturbing and says
more about humanity than very few other movies. Cynical stories about how
humans really are. Darfur is the latest of these dramas, a very, very
disturbing account of the genocide in Darfur .
We follow a
gang or journalists and photographers on a routine mission in Sudan , together
with representatives from an organizations that's there to observe. Only
observe. They arrives to a small village and spends some time there
interviewing the villagers. When they leave they see a Janjaweed convoy getting
close to the village and they decide to go back, to just be there as
international journalists - hopefully to stop the warriors from attacking the
village. But everything goes very wrong...
The acting
is also very impressive, and its even more fun that Boll only uses actors like
Billy Zane, Matt Frewer, Edward Furlong, Kristianna Loken etc - all who do
amazing jobs creating realistic characters. I'm not familiar with the South
African actors, but all of them are eerily realistic (some of them are also real
victims of the terror in Sudan ).
I'm happy to say that Darfur is very far from
the typical DTV movie and I'm actually quite happy that a lot of people out
there probably choked on their pizzas after work watching this drama. They
probably expected something very different.
Maybe it
should be mandatory for every person involved in Lundin Oil to see this movie,
for example our incompetent Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, who was
involved in the genocide in Darfur indirectly
through his work with Lundin Oil and still goes free. You know, you get a lot
of power with important friends and millions on the bank. Here in Sweden we call him The Genocide Millionaire, and
it's a quite fitting name for him - and a big shame for Sweden .
Give this
movie a chance, read up on Lundin Oil and Carl Bildt, and ignore the real
war-porn being produced in Hollywood :
Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and the rest of the crap!
"Maybe it should be mandatory for every person involved in Lundin Oil to see this movie"
ReplyDeleteNo...now you´re being naive...I think Bildt & co knows every little detail of whats going on......what amazes me is that fact that he is still in power.
So Boll made a serious message movie...? Cool...
I'm sure you're correct! Maybe let everyone of Lundin's supporters see it instead!
ReplyDeleteNinja: Well....money talks...everything else walks...hahhahah
ReplyDeleteI don´t think ethics is something that their investors think about....to be honest...I could be wrong but I think their investors don´t care.