Rakka

Baruch Kogan
Jul 22, 2017 · 2 min read

https://youtu.be/VjQ2t_yNHQs

Rakka looks promising, with subversion between the lines. Neil Blomkamp is a real treasure-there’s nothing like having your country handed over to the ANC and turned into a trash dump, and becoming a refugee, to get you woke.

Of course, he works in Hollywood, which is somewhat like large-form sculpture. You’re just not gonna get on unless you have the boys with the money behind you. So, you need to do everything sotto voce, dog whistling between the lines.

Like, remember District 9, when all the illegal aliens from space showed up and got on welfare and were pissing everywhere and stealing everything and hatching out their alien hatchlings everywhere, sponsored by the global corporations? The aliens weren’t sending their best. They were bringing drugs. They were bringing crime. And some of them, I assume, were good prawns.

Then it turns into basically a Chris Tucker-Jackie Chan buddy movie featuring a giant space crayfish as Jackie Chan, and that’s how it got into theaters, and got that first part in everyone’s heads, 7 years before Trump showed up and said “you have to go back”.

Kind of turned off by multigender cast of the insurgents. I don’t think there’s ever been an insurgency where women took leadership roles, for obvious biological reasons. But obviously, in Hollywood, if you’re gonna fight aliens, you’re gonna need Sigourney Weaver.

Obviously, there’s a Magic Negro. How you gonna fight aliens without a Magic Negro? He don’t talk too good, but he can do telepathic hoodoo, like in the Green Mile. But with aliens.

Also, it’s great that the insurgents have unlimited supplies of batteries, ammo and diesel fuel for their MRAPs. Who the hell would drive an MRAP as an insurgent? In a scenario where the skies belong to the enemy and you have no civilian traffic to hide amongst, even a technical is suicide.

I do like the portrayal of earth as a hellscape made semi-unfit for human habitation by the aliens. Very similar to the terraforming the Iraqis have done to Iraq, right down to the unbreathable atmosphere.

The impression I got from the trailer below was that the sugar coating on this red pill is “like Avatar, but not so shitty.” You know, a leftist space action movie which is designed to make you empathize with Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

Of course, there’s a liquid sodium core. See above re: District 9.

Baruch Kogan

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