Review of New Town Killers (2008) by Laila K — 15 Jan 2012

The film seems to be a commentary on the aggressive bankers that caused the collapse of the housing market in late 2006. If you listen carefully in scenes where they are sitting in the car, you can here a faint talk-radio discussion about the financial crisis. Included in the film are subtle clues like Dougray Scott's speech about lower-class people becoming leeches that the state will have to pay for (a direct political undertone about people on welfare programs). Another undertone relates to uncontrollable inflation where the Federal Reserve loans money at a rate faster than banks can cover up. In late 2011, news about the Fed went viral on the internet when a report surfaced, detailing how the Fed funneled 7.7 trillion dollars into financial institutions at a rate of 0.01%. TARP was $50 billion and the public knew about it. It seems rather strange that a film made in 2008 had so many references to the sub-prime crisis. Also, there is a theme "you either kill or be killed" in the movie which parallels the ideology of the bankers in America today.

People keep relating this film to "The Game." If I remember correctly, "The Game" was about one wealthy brother playing a giant prank on his brother and the entire route was planned. That's completely different from this film. This film is more like the Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game," which was also about a rich man hunting human "because he could.".

The film is widely misunderstood as the general public seems to have failed to relate the clues to the current events that were happening at the time. I could be wrong about the films depiction of the toxic asset agenda, but if people really thought about what was said in the film, the resemblances are realistically identical to events that happened just a couple years before the film's release.