Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

ACTION FILMS = FILMS MONGERING MENTAL ALIENATION

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/action-films-films-mongering-mental-alienation-41ef92860831

Four films or series.

1-    John Woo’s Silent Night (2023),

2-    Doug Liman’s Road House (2024),

3-    Albert Hughes’s The Continental (2023),

4-    Marcela Saïd and Julien Despaux’s Ourika (2024),

all seen on Amazon’s Prime Video, hence distributed by Amazon Prime Video, all dealing with violence in our societies and all claiming that violence is justified top answer and respond to a violent society, a violence coming from outside our community, and that outside can introduce anti-immigrant accusations or plainly racist claims, both anti-white and anti-any-ethnicity.

 Does it help us understand this violence ? Does these films enable us to devise a proper response to prevent and solve such violence? Both times, a resounding NO. But in both cases, it plays in  the hands of the most extreme forces on the nationalist side of life, the side that refuses to consider those who are not pure according to their definitions as the cause of all our problems, and not only those people but also all products that may come from the countries concerned by these ethnic groups. This is true in the USA, in Canada, with Mexico playing the wide-open gate to the previous two, and all over Europe.

 What game are these streaming services playing? Preparing coming elections! But it might go the wrong way for them. Now what is the wrong way? Good question. No answer because the ballot boxes will be the only valid answer. First stop, the European Elections in June 2024.

 2024, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Violence,  *  Race and Racism,  *  Youth gangs,  *  Racist Violence,  *  Racial Violence,  *  American Gangsters

# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:15 AM