12/21/2023 0 Comments Watch no escape 2015![]() Yet the picture’s refusal to specify exactly where its events are taking place, or to clarify the nature of its central conflict, feels like a particularly craven copout under the circumstances. This is neither the first nor the last time Hollywood has tackled Third World chaos from a First World perspective, turning a far-flung (and fictionalized) national trauma into a movie on that most important and universally relatable of subjects, the sufferings of good-looking, well-meaning white people. Grittily propulsive filmmaking and solid performances from Owen Wilson and Lake Bell aside, there’s no escaping the movie’s hand-wringing manipulations and pandering sense of privilege - which might, of course, be precisely what it takes to encourage decent niche returns for this Aug. ![]() Bayona’s survival epic “The Impossible” seemed a bit callous in suggesting that the chief victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were those well-to-do Westerners who chose the wrong week for a Thai holiday, it still looks like a model of human compassion and ethnic sensitivity next to “No Escape.” This latest thriller from director/co-writer John Erick Dowdle (“Devil,” “As Above, So Below”) is a technically accomplished, morally rank slab of cultural exploitation about an American family caught up in a violent uprising in an anonymous Southeast Asian country - one whose dark-skinned natives are on hand to kill and be killed, but who could otherwise scarcely be of less dramatic concern or interest to those behind the camera. ![]()
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