Also Known As:: Unknown
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Review Format:: DVD
Year:: 2001
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Predominant Genre:: Thriller
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Premiss:: Three young Whites on a road trip antagonize a trucker via their CB radio, then must run for their lives when he seeks vengeance.
Themes:: Alienation; Christianity; Coming-of-age; Compassion; Corporate Power; Courage; Curative; Destiny; Emotional repression; Empathy; Erotophobia; Ethnicity; Family; Free Speech; Friendship; Gynophobia; Humanity; Identity; Individualism; Justice; Loneliness; Love; Loyalty; Mankind; Materialism; Narcissism; Nationality; Nostalgia; Personal; Personal change; Political; Political Correctness; Preventive; Redemption; Republicanism; Role modeling; Sadomasochism; Schizophrenia; Sexism; Sexual Repression; Snobbery; Solipsism; Stereotyping; Totalitarianism; White culture; White guilt; White Privilege; White supremacy
Similar to:: Duel

Pandora’s Box

Caucasians Hold Grudges Forever Because they Have no Other Emotional Outlet

Summary: What happens when Whites believe that the emotions of others do not matter.

hese kinds of stories work well in White culture and, so, are an accurate reflection of the problems that Whites, and those who wish to be accepted by them, possess. The violence inherent in such a culture is well to the fore here - as is the response to it; a cycle of violence with no end in sight.

Whites are so obsessed with hiding their emotions from others - and themselves - that even among their friends they are required to conceal what they really feel or be mocked for being too much like the so-called lower races. This results in the inevitable political stereotyping that results in viewing people as members of social groups - rather than as individuals - since the latter becomes impossible when one eschews ones own emotions along with everybody else’s. Whites then act surprised when a backlash occurs - as here - and imagine a simple apology will suffice.

Emotional repression is, ultimately, the basis of the story here as we witness Whites mocking each other for being both repressed and for being emotionally-expressive - an oxymoronic worldview that can only lead to the mental illness and catastrophic emotional rage displayed here.

Mocking others is an activity undertaken by those who have no real, inner, emotional life and/or who are as immature as they are defensive. It does not fill the time, but merely passes it in the hope that the effort involved in taking responsibility for ones actions represents a time in ones life that will never occur.

Like all the best thrillers, a strong vein of humor runs through this and helps both to underscore the action and to necessarily-relieve some of the well-crafted suspense. The comedy helps compensate for the lack of a proper exploration of the moral can-of-worms the script begins to open in favor of eventual plot-heaviness; feeling a little unnatural in its eventual abandonment of character-development.

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Thursday, 28 May 2015

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Pandora’s Box

Caucasians Hold Grudges Forever Because they Have no Other Emotional Outlet

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