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Movie Review – Bastille Day

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Movie Review: Bastille Day (Mild Spoilers)

This popcorn thriller excites. And has the requisite touristy shots of Paris. But it wouldn’t go down in film history as any sort of classic.

I think it’s obvious what’s there to expect from an action flick like Bastille Day. So I wouldn’t discuss it that way.

Instead, I’d ask the question, how should countries react when portrayed as imbeciles in movies?

In 2005, Slovakia protested vehemently when painted as a murderous backwater in Hostel. I bet my country wouldn’t have very cordial comments if shown that way. When it comes to the leading countries of the world, leaders as in the ones at the front line of the war against terror, how should they react when implied to be morons who can’t even watch their own feet?

My suspicion, they don’t care. Because it’s the enshrined formula for action thrillers. Neither do they bother with how it’s almost always one super spy/agent from the United States, typically with authority issues, who saves the day with barely a bruise. Optimistically, I could say this indicates a maturity in modern audiences, as in viewers today already know to differentiate between reality and fiction. Still, I wonder whether the truth is that viewers are still longing for superhero saviours to instantly deliver us all from evil. And in that desire, do not achieve the escape they desire, when losing themselves in such impossible plots.

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