The Hunt: Absolutism, No Matter What Your Morals, Still Has Negative Ramifications

The Hunt is about extreme left wing people hunting people who are racist or morally insensitive. This movie was supposed to come out September of 2019 but got delayed because there was a mass shooting and would have been insensitive to release at the time. The Hunt stars Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank and they are great.

Betty Gilpin is in one of her first leading roles and she is great. She uses a very convincing southern accent and she does great fun and physical work in the movie. There are a lot of good cameo characters including Ike Barinholtz, Ethan Suplee, and Emma Roberts. There is a lot of comedy coming from characters that only show up for one or two scenes.

Where this movie really shines is the message it’s trying to convey. While racism and social intolerance is absolutely wrong, trying to kill people because of absolute morality and extremism is also wrong. This movie also shows that good intentions can be warped and twisted. In the marvel comic, Infinity Crusade, after Adam Warlock has taken control of the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos, he had to purge all good and evil from himself. All the evil was manifested into The Magus and all the good was manifested into The Goddess. She was absolute good so she mind controlled half the universe so they would be good. There would be no evil in the universe but there would also be no free will. The Hunt shows how people with a lot of power think because they can, try to change society forcefully because they think it will better mankind.

A good villain never thinks they are doing something wrong. They always think they are doing the write thing but use extreme methods. Hilary Swank plays a good villain. But her reasoning behind her plan isn’t fully fleshed out. There could have been some more explanation. Overall this is an entertaining movie. Maybe not the most memorable but while you’re watching it you’ll have a good time. 🍔🍔 and 1/2 🍔