The Moment: Not so much a single moment as the persistent tone throughout the movie, that the only lives that matter are those of this white American family in a non-descript Asian country. The attackers are faceless Asians, and the country's Asian citizens aren't any better, relegated to anonymous bullet fodder throughout. Why It's Controversial: Because when an entire country is besieged by a coup, to follow only white Americans is unavoidably going to upset people: it gives the impression of trivialising such an event and implying that anyone else caught in either side of the mayhem is de-humanised and doesn't matter. You can definitely argue that the filmmakers just wanted to focus in on the absurdity of a normal (white American) family caught amid gunfire in an unfamiliar land, but that the movie refuses to commit to naming a country nor engaging with any significant or memorable Asian characters makes it seem rather toothless.
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