Video game director and designer Hideo Kojimaknown for his work with metalgearand more recently, Death Strandingmade statements that disturbed some people, especially in Mexico.
They were about the Mexican-French film New order, which premiered in 2020 and caused great controversy due to its approach. The case is that Kojima It didn’t seem like a bad film to him and he even liked the plot it handled.
In a first comment on Twitter, Hideo Kojima commented ‘New Order, directed by Michel Franco. On a wedding day, a bride in a red dress is invaded by a green crowd, and the wave of this color turns the world red and bloody..
he went on to say ‘the green and red of the Mexican flag are used in a conspicuous way’. Afterwards, he said ‘the collapse of order in a disparate society is much scarier than pandemics or zombies’.
Hideo Kojima finished off by saying ‘this may be the scariest movie of the year’. Since New order premiered has won many awards.
Among them the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice International Film Festivalthe Grand Prize: Gold Hugo of the Chicago International Film Festival and the Impact Award of the Stockholm International Film Festival. It didn’t fare too badly on sites like Rotten Tomatoes Y metacritic.
Hideo Kojima liked New Order, but in Mexico they think differently
But it generated a great controversy in Mexico. She was accused of being classist and racist. Also for reflecting many of the most painful stereotypes of classes in this country.
The statements of its director did not help either, since he said that the tape showed ‘reverse racism’, and that he suffered from hate crimes for being ‘whitexican‘.
It can be thought that Hideo Kojima he evaluated what he saw on this tape, but without fully understanding the context of the story.
Some took with a bit of grace the comments from Hideo Kojima and even memes made.
what is it about New order? Well, a high-society wedding is supposed to be invaded by an angry mob, part of demonstrations that devastate Mexico. The attendees are taken hostage.
It is when the army and the government take advantage of the disturbances to impose martial law, and incidentally, the dictatorship.
Thus they plunder the rich and accuse the poor in an increasingly destructive cycle. An idea that sounds very disturbing, even to Hideo Kojima.
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