The Green Inferno is the big screen’s niftiest political allegory in a long time. Who would have expected a critique of that silly, useless Occupy movement before Hollywood got around to valorizing the renegades?
Writer-director Eli Roth puts a politically facile Columbia University student, Justine (Lorenza Izzo), in the midst of a Peruvian jungle, where her attempt at “protecting a tribe from civilization” means chaining herself to a tree to prevent corporate developers from bulldozing the tribesmen’s village. Justine is not prepared for either geopolitical interference or the tribe’s cannibalistic rituals. This modern Little Nell (a Daddy’s Girl whose father is a United Nations bigwig) finds herself stripped down and laid out for female circumcision.
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