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Extraction - quite nice film
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Really nice camera work.

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  • kurthkurth

    Yeah...it was like Lassie Comes Home....cept it was some naive kid we were supposed to have immediate empathy with. Problem is....how many kids of narcos grow up so naive ? ...zero is how many. Narcos kids usually run the show next in line, and have learned all their papas psychopathic tricks. This one never went out into the real world apparently. As well the principle typical flawed hero we're supposed to identify with ourselves in another universe. So one dimensional. And dodges more bullets than comic superheros. I liked the car chase scene. That took some planning. But as a film, it was a throwaway.

  • jonpaisjonpais

    Tried watching it but gave up after around 40 minutes. Looks like it was made for gamers? Is it based on a video game? Characters get hit head on by fast moving vehicles, get up again and continue killing spree.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Some infuence also come from this Korean film

  • jleojleo

    Why does ‘yellow filter’ keep popping up in American movies?

    ON APRIL 19, Netflix shared a new trailer for its recently released Chris Hemsworth film Extraction, which takes place in Bangladesh. The trailer depicts the high-octane methods used to film the movie (a cameraman attached to the front of a car moving at high speed, for instance). But the trailer had an unexpected consequence: Viewers quickly noticed that the footage of the movie being filmed looked normal while the final cut of the film has a distinct, and off-putting, yellowish tint.

    There’s a phrase for this distinct color palette: It’s called yellow filter, and it’s almost always used in movies that take place in India, Mexico, or Southeast Asia. Oversaturated yellow tones are supposed to depict warm, tropical, dry climates. But it makes the landscape in question look jaundiced and unhealthy, adding an almost dirty or grimy sheen to the scene. Yellow filter seems to intentionally make places the West has deemed dangerous or even primitive uglier than is necessary or even appropriate, especially when all these countries are filled with natural wonders that don’t make it to our screens quite as often as depictions of violence and poverty.

    “It’s upsetting. It goes hand in hand with how racist Westerners perceive these places and people, especially when you think about how vibrant and colorful these countries’ cultures actually are. Applying these filters plays into stereotypes about these places and the people who live there,” Sulymon, a business analyst from California, whose family is from India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, tells me.

    American films tend to add the yellow filter when they depict countries stereotyped as impoverished, polluted, or war zones (or all three). Twitter commenters on the Netflix trailer for Extraction expressed a range of emotions over the film’s use of yellow filter, from confusion to condemnation. One user joked that its also called the “Mexican filter” while another quipped “the lower a country’s GDP the more mustard coloured it is.”

    https://matadornetwork.com/read/yellow-filter-american-movies/?fbclid=IwAR3OeL2LaFtKmLS_UvdYfDXco90-6_6DoCQGLMkhTMRuUUXyJEU4qVU2qM0

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