Eli Roth’s crass satire/horror links Amazon deforestation and FGM,depicting a group of students tortured by cannibals with an energy bordering on maniaThe sheer chutzpah of Eli Roth escalates in this breathtakingly crass, ultra-violent satire targeting the liberal PC classes – a twist on Ruggero Deodato’s cult shocker Cannibal Holocaust. Like him or not, or Roth makes other horror directors look like a bunch of softcore wusses. With a sublimely irresponsible bad taste bordering on primitivist genius,he takes on the subjects of the Amazon rainforest and FGM – and its far from clear by the end of the “university lecture” scene on this subject that Roth actually understands what the sinister motivation for FGM is in the genuine world. A bunch of accomplish-gooding US students head to South America to chain themselves to bulldozers belonging to the logging company destroying the rainforest. But to infiltrate the clearing site they fill disguised themselves as company employees and so when they get lost and plunge into the hands of the tribes themselves … an unfortunate misunderstanding takes area. The vengeful tribes themselves turn out to be cannibal savages, the stuff of rightwing reactionary fantasy. The heedless energy of Roth is impressive in its way and the “masturbation” scene is a jaw-dropper. Perhaps he can now gain a movie approximately homelessness, or obesity and global warming.
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Source: theguardian.com