I actually think this is a case where neither side was in the wrong (which the officer that read the statement releasing the video agrees with) and I don't understand why you guys are determined to crucify Michael over it. It seems the video never shows this part of the encounter: I'm not sure what I would do if there was an active shooter indoors, but laying down seems counterintuitive to your usual fight or flight response. Yes I understand others were getting down but other people were also running away. Obviously that part of Bennett's story was his opinion of why he was being detained when he knew he had done nothing wrong. The part he said he was detained for being black? Were you expecting the police to tell him "we are detaining you for being black?" It wasn't a smoking gun like many people on here will assume it is. No One Gets Out Alive is available on Netflix and if I were you, I’d pass on it.Also, just watched the video from the article. But we want nuance, we want character, and we want something that understands our legends and doesn’t just give us the same old story of white people abusing and exploiting those they think “don’t belong” or that no one will miss. That’s not to say that Latinx people don’t want horror.
#Color me shocked movie#
This is playing with a concept, thinking you’re onto something, and then spectacularly blowing it while murdering immigrants (who were mainly women) and then thinking this is the message or kind of movie we need in 2021. I’m tired of our communities being used when it’s advantageous and forgotten when we’re not. It exploits our communities and our people for a quick scare without having any actual substance about the hardships that these people have been going through and the culture they were born from. And shame on the people that thought this story was a good idea in the first place. Piss off, random dude preying on immigrants who need help and instead are fed to an ancient being the movie never delves into or makes us understand. You are telling Ambar, a Latina whose people lived and breathed these lands way before you, to be honored?
You, whose ancestors came to these lands and murdered, raped, and pillaged to their heart’s content and as a means of taming the savages who needed to be taught the virtues of Christianity. Excuse me? Are you hearing yourself? You’re preying on vulnerable communities. Talk about cultural appropriation of the highest order and the caucasity of it all.Īnd then that man, that ends up kidnapping the lead Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) and keeping her in the house we see in the trailer, thinks she should be honored to be killed by this God that they feed in their basement. They stole the box, hid it away, and then started performing the rituals connected to that box as a means of surviving, thriving, and healing themselves from the ailments that plagued them. A box that was in a deep dark hole that no one in their right mind would open. No One Gets Out Alive is basically a movie about white people who steal a box they found in Mesoamerica. So entering into No One Gets Out Alive and knowing that it had this element of it all, I was intrigued and ready to get some real horror that isn’t bland as unsalted rice and that delves into the roots of Latin America and the communities who have lived in those lands for ages upon ages. Mesoamerican culture is rich with history and a knowledge that we don’t talk about enough or see in the media we consume. No, let’s twist things about and use someone’s vulnerability while appropriating their culture. It’s not as if the fear of deportation, not being able to take care of yourself and your family, and surviving in an unknown place isn’t fear enough.
No One Gets Out Alive falls flat on its face from the very start as it tries to present itself as this arthouse-style movie that exemplifies the hardships of immigrants with a twist of horror.
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