Review of The Hunter

The Hunter (IV) (2011)
8/10
The real meaning seems lost on many reviewers
23 May 2019
This was not really an adventure film or mystery, it was a commentary on the utter ruthlessness of people, driven by the need to "keep our jobs" which is why the thylacine originally got shot into extinction. (I don't consider that a spoiler since the history is known to many viewers.)

Be it protecting blessed livestock or cutting down trees, people will just keep on pillaging nature, as long as a certain attitude remains in the gene pool.

I wished it had ended differently but it made sense in the final analysis. I just wish more people would understand this as a microcosm of global environmental destruction, not a stand-alone story.

P.S. It always made more sense to call this marsupial a wolf rather than a tiger, due to its dog-like head. A number of other animals have stripes and aren't called tigers.
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