“Motel Acacia” takes place in America, but not any version of America that Americans will recognize. “Re-elect Roberts!” announces a garish campaign billboard bearing the face of a generic white po…
” takes place in America, but not any version of America that Americans will recognize. “Re-elect Roberts!” announces a garish campaign billboard bearing the face of a generic white politician. “We are great again!” Well, it’s easy to guess who that’s referring to and to extrapolate what alternate reality “” has in mind.
Considering how the “Hostel” movies traded on American tourists’ fears of Eastern Europe, the strategy should hardly seem foreign to American audiences.
Early on, JC serves as the audience’s proxy, as oblivious to the venue’s real purpose as we are. He watches in mounting horror as dad humiliates a Filipino immigrant , forcing him to sleep and offering him two choices: Either he can fend for himself in the freezing cold outside, or he can accept the accommodations they have to offer. The “motel” amounts to a series of cold, cell-like concrete rooms, bare except for a Gothic wrought-iron bed in the center.
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