BUGONIA

Name: BUGONIA
Item: BUGONIA
Author: Review

"Communist Climate Change Claptrap"

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

BUGONIA is a violent science fiction thriller with horror twists about two men who kidnap a female CEO of a drug company. Don’s older cousin, Terry, thinks Michelle is part of a race of aliens who’ve been manipulating and poisoning human beings for years. He thinks the aliens plan on wiping out humanity during a solar eclipse in four days. Michelle just seems to be a heartless corporate leader who pretends to care about diversity and making sure employees aren’t overworked. Terry and Don kidnap and chain Michelle in the basement of their farm, where they raise bees. Terry tries to force Michelle to confess and plans to use her to blackmail the alien emperor to leave Earth. A series of wild twists ensues.

BUGONIA is well made and acted. However, it’s too bizarre, violent and obscenity laced. Also, the movie turns out to be an abhorrent, mindless piece of humanist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist propaganda. The resolution of the conflict between the conspiracy theorist and the female CEO seems contradictory. BUGONIA has four ultraviolent scenes, nearly 50 strong obscenities and two strong profanities.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong humanist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist worldview that’s antihuman and promotes alien and natural evolution of human beings, plus movie comically mocks the diversity movement, but it actually just shows how corporations and rich people just use diversity to control their workers;

Foul Language:

About 59 obscenities (including about 44 “f” words), two strong profanities using the name of Jesus Christ, and one OMG profanity;

Violence:

Extreme violence when a character shoots themselves in the head, and the blood splatters all over the room and onto another character, when a character beats another character to death with a shovel, when a woman is brutally given stronger and stronger electric shocks, and when another character accidentally explodes, and their head hits another character in the head and knocks them out, strong violence when two characters fight and one of the characters almost strangles the other one to death, and when two men kidnap a woman walking to her car, plus multiple images of people who’ve suddenly just collapsed and died, and a character is tricked into injecting antifreeze into a comatose character’s body;

Sex:

No sex scenes, but two dead naked people are shown lying together in bed having been killed during sex, brief innuendo, and two men chemically castrate themselves so they can’t be seduced by the alien woman they’ve kidnapped;

Nudity:

Rear nudity of a dead person having been killed during sex;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Two men kidnap the CEO of a corporation because they think she’s part of an alien race that’s been manipulating and controlling the human race.

More Detail:

BUGONIA is another weird science fiction thriller, this time with a horror twist, from Greek immigrant Yorgos Lanthimos, who tells a story about two cousins who kidnap a CEO because the elder cousin believes she’s part of a conspiracy by an alien race controlling human beings to commit total genocide. BUGONIA is bizarre, ultraviolent and obscenity laced and turns out to be an abhorrent, mindless piece of humanist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist propaganda.

The movie begins by introducing the two cousins and the CEO. Terry is a conspiracy nut leading his shy, simple-minded younger cousin, Don, in a plan to kidnap Michelle, the female CEO of a drug company. Terry is sure that Michelle is a member of an alien race controlling humanity and planning to wipe out all the humans on the planet. Meanwhile, Michelle lays down some new company guidelines for her employees. She talks about diversity and a flexible hours program, but it’s clear she’s not committed to either.

Terry and Don kidnap Michelle and chain her in the basement. There, Terry interrogates her, demanding she admit she’s an alien. When she denies Terry’s accusations, Terry resorts to horrific electrical shocks. His cousin’s torture of Michelle disturbs Don’s gentle soul. Terry only relents when he realizes Michelle is part of the aliens’ royal family. So, he brings her upstairs for dinner, for peaceful negotiations.

A series of crazy twists ensues.

BUGONIA is well made and acted. However, it’s too bizarre, violent and obscenity laced. Also, the movie turns out to be a Marxist, humanist allegory against rich people, billionaires and corporate leaders. As such, it’s an abhorrent, mindless, shallow piece of humanist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist propaganda. The resolution of the conflict between the conspiracy theorist and the female corporate leader doesn’t really make sense. Their final actions seem self-contradictory. BUGONIA also has four ultraviolent scenes, nearly 50 strong obscenities and two strong profanities.