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Prepper (2016)
Better outcome from chewing your toenails
I don't blame the actors, they had to make something of this appalling storyline, script and humourless scenes.
The sound levels overcame and interfered with the dialogue. It also.lacked finesse.
The camera work was not up to standard, lacking complexity to enhance the moment. It was like a hand held camcorder doing holiday videos.
The storyline was neither informative for real or possible oreppers and it was not satirical enough for people who believe prepping is a waste of time and lifestyle.
Whatever the film-makers were seeking to achieve, they missed out on every level.
On a philosophical note, the idea that commnities become more isolationist, and selfish even to guarding with weapons, when crisis hits is strange to me. In Australia, when something happens, we open our cupboards, homes and wallets including for people in other states or even neighbouring countries.
The movie justifies those who prep for themselves, rather than using that time and energy to strengthen community resources, like volunteering for any Emergency Services organisation, or the Red Cross/Crescent or local disaster planning committees, or lobbying politicians for increased disaster preparation and response. This family could be prepped to the max but if there is no hospital, who is going to remove an infected appendix or treat a crush injury?
Exploring these competing ideas would have made for a more interesting movie.
A Current Affair (1971)
Drivel at best, harmful at worst.
Will we ever know the trauma, mental health damage, financial ruin and possibly even suicides of people bullied and dragged through the mud by shows like these?
They only tell one side of a story, most times. They seem to have a set formula for tge year. The bad neighbour, rip-off trading, bad tenant, bad landlord (less often than bad tenant), fighting within a family, crime-ridden poor neighbourhood, lazy unemployed plus, plus any other one-suded anxiety/ outrage inducing story about poor people or poor people being ripped of by other poor people.
The people who watch this merde are just as bad, in my opinion.