YMMV / The Green Inferno

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Do the villagers know that the activists are there to help them (which would make their decision to kill them as quite the Ungrateful Bastard), or are they simply content with any edible people they can get their hands on? Or, in a bit of Fridge Horror, are they actually mistaking them for the destructive loggers because they wear the same uniform?
  • Alejandro's masturbation scene comes so from nowhere that it has raised some doubts. Is he really trying to "ease the tension", or is he really a psycho who is turned on by what is happening, as another character accuses him?
• Anvilicious: Uninformed activism does more bad than good.
• Broken Base:
  • Justine's decision to lie to the United Nations at the end of the film tends to split over the spectators.
  • Mainly, Eli Roth's own explicit admissions that this film goes after "Social Justice Warrior" culture. While that has found supporters among the film fans who think he has some genuinely good points to make about unprepared Strawman activism, others find it brings up a lot of appalling accusations against causes of what actual student protesters are fighting against.
  • The use of the older cannibal tribe tropes is a hotbed issue in some circles. While one side claims using such tropes (and not visibly denouncing them) hurt efforts to help the actual tribes by keeping stereotypes alive, the other points people really should be expected to know that using tribes as cannibal villains in a horror movie doesn't mean all the known actual tribes (including the one that acted in the movie) kill and eat people now. In his reply to this, Roth said he completely supports the work of people who fight to protect the rainforest and tribal peoples living there, but felt that viewers can tell fiction from reality (adding that the use of stereotypes were deliberate homages to those of the earlier cannibal films). Whether or not homaging exploitation films that themselves are often criticized is an adequate defense is similarly debated.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Lars, for being played by Daryl Sabara and going from a cowardly stoner to someone protective of the rest of the group (such as shielding Justine when the villagers come in to butcher Amy) and whose shot-in-the-dark escape plan actually works.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: The film was criticized by for its portrayal of the indigenous people, but according to sources, the tribesmen themselves loved every minute of it. When director Eli Roth approached the villagers to act in the film, he found out they didn't know about films and cameras, so he screened them Cannibal Holocaust in order to show them what he wanted to do. The villagers's reaction? They found it so awesome and hilarious that they immediately signed up, and some of them even came up with ideas for the script.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Alejandro hadn't already crossed it by needlessly putting everyone's lives at risk over a cynical PR stunt for a rival logging company, he definitely does when he incapacitates fan favorite Lars when he's moments from escape, just so he won't be eaten first.
• One-Scene Wonder: Kaycee, played by none other than Sky Ferreira, only has a couple brief scenes during the film but makes quite the impression due to her hammy, sarcastic delivery and the rather crudely prophetic line "Activism is fucking gay".
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Most public discussion about the film is composed of arguments over Roth's publicity campaign at the time of its eventual release, which was seen by many as a direct appeal to the alt-right that can be summed up as "watch Social Justice Warriors get horribly killed by the evil indigenous people who they thought needed defending!".
• Squick:
  • Multiple instances, including dismemberments, eye-gouging and a disturbingly misplaced masturbation scene.
  • Also, the shamaness painting Justine's forehead with blood from her own hymen.
• The Woobie: Most of the protesters, who were tortured and killed by the same people they were trying to save. Even Justine who made it out alive will certainly have PTSD from the incident.

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