Yet another feminist propaganda film. The women are clearly posed against the men by the script. They are portrayed innocent fun loving "girls", in their 30s though, who are out in the boonies for a sentimental getaway. Sentimental in the lesbian meaning of the word, too.
The men they meet in the bush are Afghan vets just back from the field. Dishonorable discharge. That should be the trick to show us the vets are the bad guys. Weirdly I thought the vets were the good guys who got cheated by the screen writer into losing the stand off. The ladies were quite unsympathetic as characters to begin with. One of them played one of the guys, her distant high school acquaintance, into a sexual foreplay then killed him in a described self-defense against being raped.
The vulgar-mouthed women had to fight the enraged soldiers. Thoroughly unrealistic that these city girls would overwhelm the seasoned soldiers. The scene with the nudity was supposed to depict not female vulnerability but female power. Oh, the awakening of sisterhood resolve! Wow. Then the holding of hands before attacking the last man standing was meant to move us to tears. Cheesy. Then the cussing heroines cut the throat of the poor vet.
I guess Black Rock plays well into the relentless cultural propaganda (of the last three decades actually) that women are good and men are evil. But women are strong and they will fight back. They will prevail. Onward to the gender class struggle. The reason for such view of mine is the fact that the three women and men were purposefully striped of any normal ties people usually have in this world - family. These two groups were MEANT to be as expendable as possible, without parents, wives or children, so they can fit the woman vs. man class struggle agenda, depicted as a violent encounter in the movie.
The question this film left me with was, Who cares?
The men they meet in the bush are Afghan vets just back from the field. Dishonorable discharge. That should be the trick to show us the vets are the bad guys. Weirdly I thought the vets were the good guys who got cheated by the screen writer into losing the stand off. The ladies were quite unsympathetic as characters to begin with. One of them played one of the guys, her distant high school acquaintance, into a sexual foreplay then killed him in a described self-defense against being raped.
The vulgar-mouthed women had to fight the enraged soldiers. Thoroughly unrealistic that these city girls would overwhelm the seasoned soldiers. The scene with the nudity was supposed to depict not female vulnerability but female power. Oh, the awakening of sisterhood resolve! Wow. Then the holding of hands before attacking the last man standing was meant to move us to tears. Cheesy. Then the cussing heroines cut the throat of the poor vet.
I guess Black Rock plays well into the relentless cultural propaganda (of the last three decades actually) that women are good and men are evil. But women are strong and they will fight back. They will prevail. Onward to the gender class struggle. The reason for such view of mine is the fact that the three women and men were purposefully striped of any normal ties people usually have in this world - family. These two groups were MEANT to be as expendable as possible, without parents, wives or children, so they can fit the woman vs. man class struggle agenda, depicted as a violent encounter in the movie.
The question this film left me with was, Who cares?