Hostel

To be honest, I am not one for gore. I do not enjoy this entire genre of "Torture Porn" and I find it very disconcerting. However, when watching the film, I found myself more engrossed with disgust regarding the graphics instead of the message. In this case, the subject of teen commodification is taken into a literal context.

No longer are teens the consumers of corporate products, they are what is to be consumed. After watching this film, I did not find the article we were given very relevant to my perspective. Instead, I found that the film was similar To Naomi Klein's article "Alternate Everything..." in which she states that the individual space is slowly dissolving. In Hostel, the identity, freedom and opinions of the individual are irrelevant, unnecessary and a commodity, bought and sold by rich masochistic people. In this case, these people (the buyers) represent large corporations, while the enslaved represent the individual.

On a completely separate train of thought, I was surprised to find who the survivor was. The one teenage male who demonstrated remorse, restriction, and concern was the second one to die, meanwhile, the one who drinks, uses drugs, has sex without any remorse is the one who survives. The complete opposite of the final girl...strange!