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Green Room

Green Room is a 2016 independent thriller by director Jeremy Saulnier set in the rural area and deep woods of Oregon. The punk rock band Ain't Rights are touring taking every gig they can because they are notoriously broke even resorting to siphoning gas out of parked cars along the way. When one of their pre-scheduled gigs gets canceled they have to take the offer to play at a Neonazi/White Supremacist bar the next evening. You can probably already kind of imagine what follows. Just one little hint that might surprise you: they don't start to get in trouble for their differing political views, quite the opposite. The movie features two seemingly opposing subcultures. On the one side the rather anarchic punk band playing a cover of the Dead Kennedys song Nazi Punks, Fuck Off! as an opener to their gig in a crowded Nazi bar. And on the other side obviously the Neonazi group in charge of the bar plus those visiting it. But what I found really amazing is that tens