The Green Inferno (2014) on Netflix
Justine, a college freshman, joins a campus activist group run by Alejandro and his girlfriend Kara. They travel to the Amazon to stop a petrochemical company from clearing the rainforest.
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- Netflix2.3/5
- IMDb5.4/1055,723 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes38%
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Justine is in her first year of college when she joins a student protest group whose leader is Alejandro; his girlfriend Kara is also a member. The group's plan is to travel to the Amazon rainforest and shut down a petrochemical company that is clearing forest and displacing native tribes, filming the destruction and streaming it online to build pressure. Justine suggests that her father, a United Nations attorney, could draw attention to their cause. A drug dealer named Carlos puts up the money and meets them in Peru. From there they reach the construction site by boat and chain themselves to bulldozers. The company sends a militia, an officer nearly kills Justine, and video of the protest spreads. Police arrest them, and Carlos pays a bribe so they can go free.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Green Inferno (2014)
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- Indigenous rights groups attacked the film: Peru's AIDESEP called it racist stereotyping of isolated tribes, and Amazon Watch accused Eli Roth of racist imagery, of showing cannibalism and female genital mutilation that are not practiced in the Amazon, and of falsely claiming it had seen and enjoyed the film.
- Survival International, which campaigns for indigenous peoples, said the film reinforced colonialism and the stigma of indigenous peoples as savage. Eli Roth dismissed the argument, saying a fictional movie about a fictional tribe could not hurt indigenous people when gas companies tear villages apart daily, and that companies destroy villages for the resources beneath them, not because of a movie character.
- After Amazon Watch's criticism, Eli Roth partnered with the conservation site Mongabay and the charity platform Prizeo on a fundraising campaign to raise awareness about the Amazon, saying the film's publicity could connect fans with Mongabay's work protecting the rainforest and its people.
- Philippine cinema chains had a choice of two versions from Solar Pictures: an R-13 "sanitized" cut with five minutes of gore removed, and the uncut R-18 version.
