After a glowing recommendation from Jason Kenney to watch Bigfoot Family, we had nothing better to do but oblige him. There is so many things to say, so you get random point form commentary that you did not ask for:
- This Movie is not a well-funded foreign funded attack on Alberta oil. This is a very poorly locally funded attack on Texas and fracking oil.
- This movie has as much to do about Canada as the scene of them driving through Canada has to do about Canada. Man I wish Canadian border guards still wore the Mountie uniform.
- With all the giant statues about Canada that they put in that scene, I’m surprised and frankly offended they didn’t put in them driving by any of the actual giant statues we have in Alberta, there is so many to choose from….
- This movie is actually a great example of propaganda. It’s poorly written, it goes for the jugular with every line, it doesn’t attempt to justify itself at any point, or paint any humanity on the other side. It is just so sad it took 30 million dollars to figure that out when we could just teach critical literacy in our schools with an updated curriculum.
- Once you already reveal that you are a bad guy, you don’t need to drop later in the story that you blew up your foster home with a bomb, we get it, you already said you were a bad guy.
- If you believed that the terrible scene of the CEO putting on his giant ring, 10-gallon hat, and belt buckle, was an attack on Alberta stereotypes, you should remember where we got that from (as we invited them into our province to take all our oil decades ago).
- I feel with 30 Million dollars we could have paid artists in our own province to come up with way better propaganda than this, you gave Alberta a head start and people still beat you to it.
- This movie painfully did not stop to take a break on progressive statements. You don’t have to go out of your way to come up with a terrible excuse to show that the oil company guards were also homophones as well just to drive the point home that they are evil.
- I will give kudos to the fact that out of the entire cast, they actually made one of the guards not-white. Way to include.
- Even though it is white people that cause all the problems, it’s also white people that have to go and solve them, great message. I also liked the touch of personifying indigenous people as a white moose that only gets to repeat a single line over and over again, but its not like they have anything better to say.
- In case you didn’t catch it (cause text and social media) that last point was dripping in sarcasm. Indigenous people deserve a platform to speak way more than any character portrayed in this film.
I should stop at 10 points and go to sleep now. Thanks for making everyone in Alberta waste 90 minutes of their life watching this film UCP.
*edit* sorry just one more before I turn in for the night
- I wonder if Hugh Jackman is going to sue for copywrite of use of his body in that film without his permission.
