As already mentioned on here, this movie becomes shockingly accurate now as of New Orleans. Societal breakdown in less than two days, good mannered people become vicious snakes, and all around temperal control is lost. I liked this movie when it first came out, now, as of Hurricane Katrina, I believe this is an important movie that everyone needs to watch, for you don't realize that this could quite possibly happens to the rest of us.
sharethought the exact same thing while watchin it for the first time this week
"I believe this is an important movie that everyone needs to watch, for you don't realize that this could quite possibly happens to the rest of us. "
indeed...i've jsut recommended this movie to a friend of mine in texas who was askin me for advice on her situation...and it's so weird cos i'd just finished watchin the movie last nite and then she tells me that there's a hurricane warning force 5 apparantly which is said to hit right where she is and how people are goin crazy in her town already and there's fighting and she's freaked out
and i just sent her an email saying a few things and also at the end saying if u can try renting out this movie.....i said it might actually freak her out more and scare her even more...but at the same time seein as she has kids...it could also prepare her for things or tell her things that she didn't think of...and generally speakin....seeing this movie could save someone's life.....allsorts of scenarios where having seen this movie could prove very very valuable
It's a stunningly obvious point even without large-scale disasters... It's psychology at a completely amateur level; made worse by the fact that obviously no one involved in the production team had a subtle or humble bone in their body... Wolves scavenging at the beginning - could the symbolism BE any more simplistic? I think not. Give me a break and start treating me like an intuitive adult for once. It's insultingly patronising, and what's worse is you have people pandering to the film-makers egos in later years by labelling the product with a wholly undeserved significance... This is slop churned on autopilot from what could have actually been an interesting setup in more competent hands.
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage... "
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Somehow I don't think New Orleans is more 'special' in any way than any other big city.
I remember seeing this movie a while ago (it's now due on TV so that's why I'm looking it up) and I recall how it seemed so implausible at the time. In a dangerous situation, you'd imagine people getting close together and helping each other survive. What happened instead shows just how sick the humans can be. I can understand looting a food store in a situation like that, but rape and murder?
Katrina as well as other famous experiments (google for 'Milgram experiment' and 'stanford prison experiment') should be a reminder to us all of the true human nature.
It shows the American mentality (tm). It can only happen in a development country called America.
shareYou idiots, new Orleans isnt the only city to loose power. A year earlier in Ivan we lost power for 2 months and didnt shoot each other. New Orleaner see, Orleaner do.
share^^^they call NOLA the big easy, pffffft honey ain't NUTHIN easy about that city.
Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!
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