Basically, reducing political violence, which is a common historical tool for the oppressed when all other methods of peace fail, is nothing but a set of adventurers who got radicalized and decided to kill some armed bodies of the state. Has anything effectively changed? No. Has any concept of what a liberated society looks like been explored? No. Is political violence conceptualized beyond killing single armed bodies of the state? No. But because this film does mention political violence as a tool that the oppressed masses must consider or utilize for their benefit when all else fails it does at least convey something more radical than what you're ever going to see in on Netflix of Amazon Prime, but that in of itself doesn't make the film for that enjoyable or interesting of a viewing experience. While the film is ambitious in some aspects of its more supernatural concepts, it still lacks any political consciousness worth seriously investigating beyond morbid curiosity. Empty Metal could've been so much more if it had seriously contemplated what organized political violence looked like, or at least did more to make us interested in the film's characters. While the film may achieve a more experimental feel with its jumpy editing, archival footage, 3-D renderings of political acts of violence, and an interspersed narrative, it doesn't create anything compelling in the process or anything that shocks someone who has already accepted that political violence is a common reality of everyday existence, which is primarily committed by those of the Epstein class and its sympathizers.
Basically, reducing political violence, which is a common historical tool for the oppressed when all other methods of peace fail, is nothing but a set of adventurers who got radicalized and decided to kill some armed bodies of the state. Has anything effectively changed? No. Has any concept of what a liberated society looks like been explored? No. Is political violence conceptualized beyond killing single armed bodies of the state? No. But because this film does mention political violence as a tool that the oppressed masses must consider or utilize for their benefit when all else fails it does at least convey something more radical than what you're ever going to see in on Netflix of Amazon Prime, but that in of itself doesn't make the film for that enjoyable or interesting of a viewing experience. While the film is ambitious in some aspects of its more supernatural concepts, it still lacks any political consciousness worth seriously investigating beyond morbid curiosity. Empty Metal could've been so much more if it had seriously contemplated what organized political violence looked like, or at least did more to make us interested in the film's characters. While the film may achieve a more experimental feel with its jumpy editing, archival footage, 3-D renderings of political acts of violence, and an interspersed narrative, it doesn't create anything compelling in the process or anything that shocks someone who has already accepted that political violence is a common reality of everyday existence, which is primarily committed by those of the Epstein class and its sympathizers.
