Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I have decidedly mixed feelings about this trailer. The Boston Marathon bombing is very fresh in our collective consciousness which means a movie about it has the ability to do two things: help us heal from the attack and/or focus our fear and hatred on some vague thing responsible for it.
Peter Berg's a great shooter, so of course this trailer looks like a million bucks. I worry that the majority of his audience isn't going to see the hunt for the bombers as stopping two lunatics from hurting other people and focus instead on the scary secretive Muslims.
I know this is coming across as super whiny liberal stuff and I realize there's a real threat out there that our brave men and women in uniform (blue and camo) fight to protect us from every day, but I worry this thing is doing nothing but fanning the flames of suspicion and hate at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-”other” sentiment is at its height.
It's the interrogation scene in the trailer that really gets to me. It's right out of 24, but without some fake plot about a nuke going off in LA, New York or DC... and, you know, about something that really happened. Plus it's weird that a greenband trailer gets to use the word “shit” I guess because yay America?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about profanity in trailers, just struck me as an odd pass by the MPAA.
Maybe I'm a little too raw about the hate-crimes that have happened (the real ones, not the few bullshit stories that were faked for attention) and am projecting that onto this trailer, but it does feel like a step too far for me, personally, at the moment.
So, what do you think? Am I way off base? Or am I reading this correctly?
-Eric Vespe
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