19 June 2009

Hostel Understood

I figured out Hostel: Potential reading: Actualizing underlying American fantasies of conquest and domination in an increasingly Otherized post-9/11 world. Foreigners are fundamentally evil and hate Americans, and it takes a strong, assertive heteronormative masculine figure to disrupt their system of hegemonic power and control w/combative force. Women, by and large, exist to serve two functions: passive bodies upon which you can assert your objective of sexual conquest, and deviously active bodies who will backstab you at any opportunity. Women must, therefore, be fucked thoroughly and killed brutally (both of which happen here). Homosexual men will attempt to literally queer your capacity for active control by forcing their sexual deviance upon you. The only solution is to deflect their advances, reassert your heterosexuality via more sexual conquest, reify heteronormativity, and (ultimately) torture and murder the homosexuals brutally, thereby satiating a personal desire for revenge and satiating a deeper cultural desire for American supremacy through the reinforcing of vengeance policies.

2 comments:

  1. It's either the most ethnocentric, right wing take on international trade or a scathing parody of American narcissism...

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  2. I think you simply have more faith in Eli Roth than do I.

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