ACTION FILMS = FILMS MONGERING MENTAL ALIENATION

JOHN WOO — SILENT NIGHT — 2023

The action is brilliant but produced by some Artificial Intelligence and virtual special effects machines. Stunt people are no longer necessary. I wonder even if actors are necessary. There might be some scenes that are really original and human-performed. Then what is left in the film?

Not much, true enough, except the topic, the subject, itself dealt with by some ChatGPT that creates a scenario that is fully extreme in all details. In an American neighborhood, some gangs or bands of hooligans are driving around shooting at each other without any concern about the people around. They kill one day a child and seriously wound the father. When the father is finally back on his feet, he looks for the hooligans and then on Christmas Eve, he traps them one after another and kills them all. Welcome to the ChatGPT and AI massacre, slaughter, and carnage. He manages to bring a cop into his cleaning adventure, but all details are too well calculated to be in any way surprising. There is no suspense since we know from the very start the father will get them all, even if he has to die killing the last one.

Bood Christmas in April.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU