to “eat their own.” Some, including perhaps the coolest meta nod in years - Momoa being told that the “answer” is in a snow globe (more on that in the after credits) - is a lot more subtle. Some is pretty in-your-face: cannibalism is 1 part consumerism and 4 parts the tendency of some groups in the U.S.
#ST ELSEWHERE SNOW GLOBE MOVIE#
Much - if not all - of the movie is straight up allegory.
After he made an oblique reference to the Tommy. What we missed was that it was written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour (who made the creepy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), one of the more original, quirky, and creative talents in the game today.Īs it turns out, The Bad Batch has far more in common with The Killing of a Sacred Deer than Mad Max. On the Into the Dalek commentary, he said that those knowledgeable of St. It doesn’t get much more Drive-In Moviey than that.Īnd with a cast that included Suki Waterhouse ( Assassination Nation), a non-aquatic Jason Momoa, a wick-free Keanu Reeves, and an always disturbed Jim Carrey, it seemed like a safe bet. The NETFLIX write up say it all: “Banished to a wasteland of undesirables, a young woman struggles to find her feet among a drug-soaked desert society and an enclave of cannibals.” When we read the description for The Bad Batch, we thought it would be a good candidate for a Saturday Night Drive-In review.
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