Typical White Guilt Film

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2014)

I had high hopes for this film. Lots of potential to go in all types of psychological directions. Instead it took a turn for White Guilt, as almost all of Hollywood is promoting.
-WARNING, SPOILERS-
The son definitely deserved at least a smack for knowingly endangering the lives of the family. But here is what it comes down too, upbringing. The children can't be expected to make the hard choices if their parents are too weak as well. So in reality, the Father is a victim of his own teachings.
It was only by necessity that he rose to the occasion. But in the end, failed to follow through. I see this in America. In reality, the Mother and Daughter would have been raped, before the whole family was executed. The 'strong male' character visibly didn't have the will power to take on all those other characters.
Now lets take this on a symbolic level that Hollywood is trying to convey: Rich white people cause genocide and turn a blind eye to poverty and the murder of the poor. Rich people are so ruthless that they can't stand to see one do better than the other. Rich people are totally f'ed in the head.especially the ones with blond hair and blue eyes. The black man is poor and totally innocent, as Blond Haired and Blue eyed Rich white people are trying to kill them. The liberal white child (frail as he is, with his black hair and black eyes) is the liberator of the social injustice of rich white people.
Do I sense a whole movie portraying White Guilt? Did you notice that almost all the women in the movie had blond hair and Blue eyes? –At least all the bad women. The one good woman had Black Hair and Black Eyes. The one that got her husband killed and equally endangered her family. In fact, she showed more concern for the poor guy than she did her dead husband.
There was only one line in the movie I liked. It's where the Father is looking at boats and talks about how at one point, they could barely afford rent, and now are looking at boats. It's the only line in the movie that acknowledges that you have no station in life, that America isn't a Monarchy. You can start poor and become rich....Anyway, apparently that isn't a good quality because the 1 guy in the movie that did transition from poor to rich on his wits, died. Meanwhile the family that leeches off his efforts live, and is the direct cause of his death.
oh, and by far my favorite tactic. Hollywood gave the poor guy dog tags in hopes to make the audience more sympathetic to him. I'm a Marine and that's insulting. There are plenty of us that make a lot of money in the civilian world, because we have a stronger work ethic, higher morals, and the will to do what is necessary.
American civilians are becoming weaker and lazier, so it's getting easier to lap them in the game of life.