![]() Taking this theme a step further, another scene shows the sheriff struggling to convince news crews not to show the school in the background of their shots - even just temporarily - so as to hide information from the shooters. While Run Hide Fight absolutely does not preach the issue and the message behind this plot point is entirely up to the viewer to interpret on his or her own, it’s a potent demonstration of the media’s role (culpability?) in these events. Later in the movie, the shooters even gain a strategic advantage by simply watching the live news feeds of their own school shooting incident that are, as you’d expect, effectively the only thing on television. They issue a deadly warning to the big tech companies not to cut their stream, and begin playing out the situation for fame and glory. And she makes a conscious choice to not just survive, but to fight back.Īfter gaining control, the shooters force their student captives to pull out their phones and fire up whatever app they use for live streaming. Mentally checked out at the end of her senior year and dealing with some other demons, Zoe suddenly finds herself in a life-or-death situation. One of the baddies is armed with an MP 40 submachine gun, origins of which are not explained. It all begins when a cadre of school shooters bent on fame and achieving the “best” school shooting ever drive their van into the cafeteria of their high school. I tell you what, making an action movie about a school shooting takes chutzpah. Less “conservative” is taking a huge risk on subject matter. Responsible firearm use by a 17-year-old? Hunting for meat by people who could purchase it in a grocery store instead? Nothing more than depicting this in straight fashion, without commentary or messaging, makes Run Hide Fight “conservative” in 2021. tens of thousands of times every year.īut it’s a scene that Hollywood would never put in a movie these days. Run Hide Fight simply shows a father and child hunting for an animal that will fill their freezer. In fact, the scene is tough and the deer doesn’t die easy. There is zero glorification of firearms or hunting. Todd coaches his daughter through the shot and a nice buck is taken. Take, for instance, the movie’s opening scene which shows 17-year-old Zoe Hull (Isabel May) and her dad, Todd (Thomas Jane), deer hunting early in the morning before Zoe’s school day. Simply by its not being openly anti-gun and explicitly woke, and the lack of a heavy-handed political message, Run Hide Fight somehow becomes a “conservative” movie while doing nothing more than playing it straight. In fact, if it weren’t for the pervasive leftist messaging in most pop culture that we encounter and consume, Run Hide Fight wouldn’t even stand out as having a political bent at all. ![]() If you weren’t familiar with The Daily Wire you’d never guess, after watching it, that Run Hide Fight is considered “conservative.” There are no openly stated “lessons” or themes that make most films with a conservative bent feel a lot like attending Sunday school. ![]() Knowing this background, Run Hide Fight is absolutely not what you likely expect. ![]()
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