Do humans have a prejudice against ugly “mountain monsters”, just as some races hate other races, and want to destroy, drive away or even kill them just because they are different from you? What is really scary is the prejudice and discrimination of human beings!
This film is oddly emotional and a bit scary. Tina is a policewoman at border security who has a superpower to smell or rather feel shame, lust and sin. That’s why she is in charge of the security lanes and makes one catch after another. But she was also an ugly woman, strangely ugly, with a face like a beast. During one of the security checks, she spotted a man who looked like her, with an even rougher and more savage face. She could feel the evil in him but could find nothing but a box of maggots. And that wasn’t even strange, what was strange was that the second time she went through security, the man deliberately allowed Tina to check and during her colleague’s inspection, it was discovered that the man actually had female sexual organs and had scars on his tailbone, OH MY GOD!
Tina apologised and the two got to know each other over time and the man, no, the …… woman, didn’t seem right. Anyway, his name is Walker! They met in the forest and Walker fed Tina big maggots, which Tina actually enjoyed eating. Walker then rents Tina’s home and one night, in the forest, has a baby …… ah …… have a head rush? I kid you not, this film is littered with oddball plots. What’s even more unbelievable is that Tina finally makes out with Walker after Walker seduces her over and over again. In the forest wilderness, in broad daylight, the two men are thunderstruck and guess what? Tina’s lower body grows naturally like that …… and then the two of them are …… really heavy-handed!
Alas, the director scriptwriter’s brain is too big. The bearded and strong on the outside, but actually a woman? They look gentle and calm on the outside, and they have bountiful bosoms, but they are actually a man? They are actually a different group of people called mountain monsters. The two ran free in the forest, wildly shouting. Tina has never been happier, she always thought she was a chromosomally mutated monster. Little did she know that she was really a “monster”! The joy of knowing who she was and feeling like she belonged was unbridled. But it doesn’t last long, as kind-hearted Tina soon discovers a nasty incident involving a baby, and it has something to do with Walker.
It turns out that Walker has been bullied by humans since he was a child and has developed a hatred for them, so he wants to punish them for their suffering by “swapping their children”. He said: “The human race is a disease! They only use everything on earth for their own selfish purposes. It’s true, but there’s no denying that in some ways, or to other species in nature, perhaps we are what we are. But Tina doesn’t think humans are all bad, and she doesn’t want to hurt anyone, much less perpetuate such a race with Walker – “What’s there to perpetuate about demons?”
The film may seem to be telling a story with a magical twist, between humans and monsters. But in fact it could also be seen as a ‘race’ story. The title of the film, Frontera, suggests that there is a visible and invisible border between countries, between regions, between races and races, between hearts and minds.
Do humans have a prejudice against the ugly “mountain monsters”, just as some races hate other races, and want to destroy, drive away or even kill them just because they are different from you?
If you think about it, it is not the mountain monsters or the film that are scary, it is the prejudice and discrimination of human beings that is scary!
