The Green Inferno 2013 is Eli Roth's version of Avatar

  Blender Dumbass
September 30, 2025

👁 34

https://piefed.social/ : 👁 1
https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews : 👁 2

#TheGreenInferno #EliRoth #activism #film #reivew #movies #cinemastodon

License:
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

In James Cameron's Avatar humans are attacking the forests of Pandora, bulldozing and killing indigenous population of the planet, to get to the natural resources their tribes are sitting at. The military is literally playing a role of guards, for the bulldozers, because the indigenous have become sort of very upset with humans, that terrorize their land. This is sort the plot of Eli Roth's horror film The Green Inferno, just Roth makes it way way more viscerally.

Roth is known to have parents that know a lot about human psychology. And looking at Roth's films, you can see he truly knows how to fuck up the audience with Neropineuphoria. He uses the few thing he learned from his shrink parents, to do more effective scares in horror films. Yet it seems like the only thing he cares about in the horror films is this psychological aspect. Plot or character development is secondary, or even at times not important at all.

The plot of The Green Inferno starts at a college campus, where Roth's future wife Lorenza Izzo and Baby Driver's future mother Sky Ferreira are arguing about the activists. And how much the hate them.

Yet after Izzo's character learns about female circumcision ( or vaginal mutilation ) performed by indigenous people at her college class, she decides to join the activists, to try to do something about it. Which brings her on a somewhat unrelated mission of saving said indigenous people from bulldozers.

After one rather intense encounter with the bulldozers, somewhere in the jungle, where Izzo's character almost gets killed by the military guarding those bulldozers, the group of activists get captured by one of those indigenous tribes. ( At about half way point of the movie. ) Where the horror part of this horror film beings.

See, instead of being Na'vi and trying to teach Jake Sully in the way of the forest people, the indigenous people in The Green Inferno are so pissed they have a ritual of cutting strangers up into pieces, cooking those pieces and then eating them. Signaling their dominance. But also they are one those tribes that practices female circumcision.

So the film turns into a slow-burn slasher where some people are eaten. Some people try to escape and then are eaten. And Izzo's character despite her worst fears is chosen by the tribe for a vaginal mutilation ritual. Being Roth, Roth even includes a scene so stupid you can practically hear him giggling over the pages of the script. One girl, realizing that her girlfriend was killed, and that she might just have ate her, decides to kill herself, cutting her own throat. And another characters starts jerking off to it. Having parents be psychologists payed off well for little Eli.

One more rather unexpectedly fucked up thing Eli Roth does, was something other people might not even notice. You kind of need to be a fan of the group of filmmakers Eli Roth is from. So let me explain.

Eli Roth often appears as an actor ( usually for small roles ) in Quentin Tarantino pictures. And Tarantino produced one of his films Hostel. Roth also directed one of the fake trailers for Grindhouse a Tarantino / Rodriguez double-feature. So Roth, Tarantino and Rodriguez ( and others too, but they are not important for this point ) are friends in real life.

In 2001 Rodriguez starts a series of films called Spy Kids where he casts two kids Alexa Vega as Carmen and Daryl Sabara as Juny Cortez. In the end Rodriguez decides to spin-off the series into a series of hard-R exploration films Machete using both child actors ( who grew up) again, in more adult roles. Even making a sexy prostitute out of little Alexa.

Eli Roth's The Green Inferno has Daryl Sabara ( little Juny Cortez ) as one of the activists. And Eli Roth being Eli Roth shows his dick in the film. Watching The Green Inferno I saw Juni Cortez's dick. This guy really knows how to mess people up. I mean the actor was already a fully grown man with a beard. But still. You cannot shake the association. If anything the only somewhat famous role Sabara did in his life was Juny Cortez. Eli Roth must have calculated it perfectly to fuck people up a bit harder.

Also in the college scene about vaginal mutilation, Roth shows documentary images of real indigenous little girls at and after the procedure. Which is pretty much the only legal way to show child-nudity on screen in 2013, because any sexual connotation what so ever, immediately turns it into CSAM ( or at least creates the legal risk of it, some films still somewhat pull that off, but it is very fucking risky to do ). But if it is a documentary footage of a real tribe doing some real fucked up shit. In a collage / lecture setting. Well then it's legal.

The funny thing is, those tribes actually don't ware much below the waist. Looking at documentary images of such tribes, you can see that everybody's dicks are out in the open. Even the children's. But that would be too risky to film, because all of the indigenous people are played by actors and not real tribe people. Because they need to be direct-able. So you can see that every single one of them is wearing something to cover the genitals. Otherwise Roth is risking too much legally. You get stupid shit like this when the rule becomes more important than the reason for said rule.

The relationship between indigenous people and the message of the film seems to be strange. On one side the film tries to make the case that we need to protect those tribes despite their "insanity". The survivor of the encounter ( there is only one because it is a slasher film ) even makes up a whole story, inventing how nice the tribe people were. Even though she saw every gruesome horrific detail of their "insanity" with her own eyes. And even though she was in fact happy to see the bulldozers, when they showed up. Because technically they saved her.

From one side the activists were doing the right thing. But from the other side the films is questioning, or outright mocking activists for trying to save people of such vile nature. The fact that the group of those activists ends up being eaten by the very people they are trying to save is a very poetic, ironic and in the same time disturbing thing. Which only reminds me of something that happened 10 years after the movie.

After October 7th 2023 Israeli media didn't wait to point out that a lot of the people killed in the initial attack by Palestinians were left-leaning Palestinian supporters. And the Wikipedia about Eli Roth claims that in this whole situation Eli is strongly on the side of Israel. Even his friend Quentin Tarantino was seen taking pictures with the IDF to boost their morale before the eventual counter-attack.

If that is the lens we want to look through at The Green Inferno, we can see that Eli Roth is painting a very grim picture. Eli is making an argument that activism itself is a problem of sorts. But I don't think Roth is a totally right wing extremist motherfucker. Eli played a Jewish soldier fucking up Nazis in Inglorious Bastards. And remember his friend Rodriguez made Machete where the messages are very left-leaning indeed. The film is literally a pro-immigrant propaganda piece. Yet unlike other propaganda pieces Machete isn't painting the Mexicans as some happy, love-loving plushy toys. He paints them as fucking Mexicans. With all of the uncomfortable things that Mexicans have.

The ending of The Green Inferno shows something rather interesting. It shows a person that is willing to save a tribe of absolutely vile people despite the fact that they are absolutely vile people. She loses her need to change their mind about vaginal mutilation. She accepts them as fucked up as they are. But she also knows that others wont. So she makes up the story to save their asses from bulldozers. And the funny thing is, her attempt actually works. Because the attempt of the activists, spoiler alert, turns out to be a PR stunt for some wealthy motherfucker. And that all those stupid college-kids were pretty much manipulated to join that PR stunt out of fear of shame. The guy who manipulated them, even states in the beginning that shame is his best weapon to change people's minds.

In a way it seem Eli Roth is turning into some sort of Lars Von Trier. He is way more depressed and way less optimistic about the world. While sharing most of the concerns. He understands the problem of deforestation. And specifically the problem of displacing or outright massacring the indigenous population of those forests. Yet he doesn't pretend that a few college-kids doing a live-stream about it will change anything. Yes it could work to get janitors their health care, as shown in the beginning of the film. But it will not work when the shit is actually serious. You need much smarter, no bullshit, approaches.

When Greta Thunberg went on a mission to give aid to Gaza by sailing a ship full of products, I was tense. I hoped at the very least that my county will not blow her up. Because, honestly I believed they could do that. Turned out, they relatively peacefully arrested her and deported her back to Europe. Yet back when she started sailing toward Gaza one guy who's name is Eli Roth said something about her. He said "She needs to be eaten by cannibals.". People really didn't get it. But we now know what he meant.

Happy Hacking!!!

JSON Markdown

Help

Subscribe RSS

Author
Website

Share on Mastodon

Share

Help

You can comment from Mastodon.

Go

c:1 @Troler
Post

  Troler c:0



Did Eli Roth actually say that? I looked it up... I can't believe it he actually said that.

Reply

  Troler c:1



Did Roth actually say that?.. I looked it up, he did. Eli Roth, you are some weird person

Reply