Throughout September I will be raiding my collection of favourite movies to review one a day, with a focus on overlooked and underappreciated films.
Where to find it: Rent on Amazon
Length: 90 minutes
Synopsis: Liberals decide to kill conservatives
Recommendation rating: 3/5
What I like about it: clever themes, good ending, biblical imagery
What I don’t like about it: mostly a talky play and not a great one
Review:
A group of friends gather for a regular dinner party, they discuss liberal political topics and quaff expensive wine. They take in a stranded traveller who does not share their views and in fact turns out to be very racist. This escalates into a confrontation in which one of the group kills him. After clearing away the mess, they find they have quite the taste for killing awful conservatives and even flatter themselves that doing so may “prevent the next Hitler” and so they arrange to do it again, this time intentionally inviting people whose opinions they dislike and poisoning them. They do it again and again, with increasingly less stringent vetting, before an ending ties the themes up nicely and makes a solid, somewhat-unexpected statement in doing so. Not a great film overall but well worth watching for the execution (pardon the pun) of its ideas.
Content notes (may contain spoilers): violence, racism and hateful dialogue