This week we cover New Order (2020) with Carter Moon of the Vaguebooking Podcast, a film that asks: what if inequality fosters a race of mindless, dark-skinned zombies who wreak havoc on polite society? Support the show for $3/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week, as well as instant access to hundreds of previous bonus episodes, delivered straight to your podcast app.
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| The mindlessness is illustrated throughout the whole thing. | |
| When they're driving through, you always see them kind of driving through the neighborhoods, the extras are just running around, like just seemingly looting, just holding items. | |
| Yeah. | |
| At one point, there's someone just holding just like a, it's just like a frame to maybe what was a maybe part of a dresser. | |
| Yeah, it's so good. | |
| Someone's carrying just clearly an empty box. | |
| It's just all this, like you said, it's not bad extra acting. | |
| It is, that's what they're trying to do. | |
| They're trying to show these people being mindless idiots. | |
| Yes, exactly. | |
| Yeah, it's just, I have that in my notes too. | |
| You see one guy who's carrying like maybe a box of speakers or something, and another guy behind him who's carrying like a wire frame for an office cabinet or something. | |
| Like it doesn't even have drawers. | |
| It's like, I don't know. | |
| Yeah, it's just, oh, but it's something that I don't think a poor person would probably steal, you know? | |
| The fucking like flashing off the side of a house or something. | |
| Just nonsense, you know? | |
| So we're still in this garden party scene. | |
| Guys in suits are the ones who are like getting the real assets, you know? | |
| They're getting like The jewelry, the cash out of the safe, they're forcing some of these guests to do like wire transfers at a cell phone, you know, over the cell phone or whatever. | |
| And then everybody else is acting like the Joker's gang from the Michael Keaton Batman, where they're just like spray painting squigglies on the walls and like dancing on pool tables and shit. | |
| It's so, like, again, it kind of, it hints at this sort of hierarchical or exploitative nature of this protest where there's like, oh, there's real people who are behind the scenes orchestrating, you know, these sheep to march and protest and do whatever. | |
| And you see some of that in the responses that I have at the end of the episode. | |
| But he doesn't really ever make that point that these protests, these riots, were orchestrated by the people that wanted to take advantage of it. | |
| That's never actually shown. | |
| It's just, oh, they happened to take advantage of this natural thing that occurred. | |
| Yeah, it's what's really weird about this movie is that, like, I think if you're somebody who already believes that George Soros influenced BLM and all this stuff, you could watch this movie and be like, look, that just is proving it. | |
| But if you don't believe that, you can just as easily watch this movie and interpret it another way. | |
| It's so fucking vague and broad that you can take it almost any way you want. | |
| That is kind of the point of this one too, because that's kind of what they're doing here. | |
| They're looters, they're rioters, they're kind of mindless, they're seething. | |
| But also, be careful. | |
| You might see them on the TV burning down liquor stores, but they're also infiltrating your work staff. | |
| They're also organizing things. | |
| Use your organization to steal from you directly. | |
| So be afraid. | |
| There's an honesty in this movie of like, it is showing what upper class people are afraid of and what they think class protests are about and things like that. | |
| This guy who made this movie, what's his name? | |
| Michelle Franco, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, he yeah, he like is from the the upper class of Mexico and everything like that. | |
| And I think like, the way he clearly thinks about, you know, poor people is the way I think a lot of people in the like upper upper classes of society view everyone else basically. | |
| The overall message seems to be like, oh, if we have inequality, then we're going to get the zombie rage virus from the masses. | |
| And like, we don't want that. | |
| So we need to be just a little more fair, or it's all of our heads on the chopping block, because these mindless freaks, if they don't get enough money, they're going to do things like Shoot pregnant women in the belly and leave them for dead or they're going to like execute the mother of the bride on her knees so that she's over in her closet. | |
| We get those shots in this movie. | |
| It is. | |
| We see that we go back to the mother in that closet. | |
| And yeah, she's just dead. | |
| They just killed her off screen. | |
| She slumped over the drawer where the safe was in. | |
| The maid's picking over her. | |
| We get a shot of the pregnant wife of the son, Marianne's brother, I believe, just splayed out on the stairs with no visible wound except a gunshot to the belly. |