Danger Zone (2023)

Danger Zone is a front-row look at the global war industry. There are no easy answers when two worlds collide: between the safe and the helpless. Danger Zone is a damning commentary on society where everything is available at a price.

**Ridiculous "documentary"** Danger Zone is a fictional movie by the otherwise jobless amateur couple Vita from Poland, with her husband Kamil, funded mostly by German taxpayers, through their politically connected parents, Mama Zelakeviciute and Papa Maciej. The movie plot is simple: Vita and Kamil dream of being film makers and traveling to exotic countries, so they invent the story of a "war tourism industry", which in reality doesn't exist. Lacking any proof, they quote an unknown source from 2012 (!) that says "war tourism is part of adventure tourism with an annual turnover of US$ 265 Billions (!) - and growing". Sorry, that is like calling unicycling on a tightrope over the Grand Canyon a part of the "global bicycle industry", with an annual turnover of US$ 65 Billion. Growing laughter, hahaha. The snapshooters Vita and Kamil stumble from one filming mistake to the next script debacle to the next typo error, while they are safely guided through Afghanistan, Colombia, Karabakh, Somalia and Syria by real veteran travelers who have, over many years, earned the trust and respect of their local contacts. (But none of the protagonists gets credited in the film, strangely only used and abused by their first names, although some of them have well known names and CVs.) Despite all the efforts, and their claim of a "huge war zone industry", the two rookie reporters predictably fail to produce any footage of a real war zone, so they resort to cutting in some shotgun noise and tracer ammunition from other movies. To make things worse, the childless Polish couple seems to enjoy seeing children suffer, so they stage several weird situations full of child hatred: "The babies are all guilty! The babies will all die!". Furthermore, they even hand a real gun to a group of kindergarten kids in a Syrian refugee camp, and provoke a kindergarten kid to make a cut-throat gesture. The two Poles also display their country's stereotypical attitude against Muslim populations, so they stage several film situations that look like an aggessive Muslim mob to the unknowing film viewer. Defamatory words like "terrorists" or "drug cartell" are thrown around indiscriminately. As if the people in foreign countries were all criminal, savages and killers. So sad to see. The many successful peacemaking efforts of a Jewish couple, or the United Nations Organisations, or other voluntaryists, are routinely denied and cut out of the film story. The White privilege on display by Vita and Kamil, who seem to openly enjoy their atrocity p*rn, is sometimes hard to bear. In a sneaky way, Vita and Kamil try to project their complete lack of a life purpose, their own dark voyeurism, and their neurotic narcicism, onto their healthy film characters, but fail miserably. To unwitting television audiences, this fictional movie from Poland is sold as a "documentary" from the United Kingdom. As if there was a quality stigma of many things coming from Poland. The good news is that nowadays hardly anyone watches TV, and certainly not a film title like "Danger Zone", which has been used at least a dozen times before, and is practically impossible to pinpoint on Google. We recommend: don't bother.