6/13/2023 0 Comments The texas chain saw massacre 2021![]() ![]() The underlying themes in a film, especially horror, help define the fabric of a narrative, as the unfurling of the same hinges on how expertly these subject matters are executed. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2022) MOVIE THEMES ANALYSED: MILLENNIAL CULTURE & GENTRIFICATION: No matter how sympathetic Leatherface’s backstory is (wherein his nature is greatly influenced by nurture or lack thereof), it is important to remember that he is a remorseless serial killer, who feels absolutely no empathy for anyone at all, and holds no qualms to butcher innocents when he feels like. Although the arrival of the youngsters in Harlow disrupts Leatherface’s existence, which is exacerbated by Virginia’s death, the teenagers are nowhere responsible for whatever happens next. It is possible that the reason why the killings stopped since 1975 is that Virginia was somehow able to stop him from giving in to this innate and primal urge, nurturing him with love and keeping him sheltered from the outside world. ![]() The brutal massacres begin, starting with Ruth and the policemen, who are killed amid the cornfields. After Virginia dies abruptly, all hell breaks loose - the man is no one other than Bubba Sawyer, A.K.A Leatherface and the death of his sole caregiver awakens the killer within him after 50 years. ![]() Virginia at the orphanage, presumably being the last of her boys that she took care of. A tall, menacing man also joins them: he had been living with Ms. When asked to provide proof, she refuses, taunting Dante (a black man) that she meant “nothing” by the confederate flag, as she has raised many “boys like him.”Īfter the cops are called on her, she violently falls sick, prompting the policemen and Ruth to accompany her in an ambulance. After Dante and Melody enter the seemingly abandoned Harlow Orphanage to remove the flag from the inside, they suddenly encounter an old woman named Virginia, who claims to still be the owner of the place. When they arrive at Harlow, they immediately notice a confederate flag hanging from a building (which is terrible for more reasons than one, but more so for the group as investors would be arriving soon). Keeping these factors in mind, here’s an in-depth look into Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, what the ending of the film intended to evoke, and the themes that it managed to evolve (or failed to develop) throughout its run time. ![]() The socio-political commentary inherent within the film’s fabric is flimsy at best, and the ending is one crafted purely for the sake of shock factor, which cheapens the premise, to begin with. No, while Texas Chainsaw Massacre is nowhere nearly as terrible as Texas Chainsaw 3D, it hinges itself on a narrative with paper-thin characters, and the return of an iconic masked cannibal who seems neither interesting nor menacing, as opposed to Hooper’s original. However, intentions and outcomes are often mutually exclusive, which is exactly the case with Texas Chainsaw Massacre - while director David Blue Garcia intended for the sequel to be respectful of Hooper’s original, the end result is a series of misguided steps that ultimately butcher the legacy of a decades-spanning horror franchise. This, of course, means that entries such as 2003’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and backstory-driven reboots such as Leatherface do not factor into the ambit of the “requel”, as it chooses to craft an original narrative that continues Leatherface’s legacy. Following the formula of David Gordon Green’s Halloween films, which ignore all entries except John Carpenter’s original, Netflix’s legacy sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is a direct continuation of Hooper’s cult classic. ![]()
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