<em>Cocaine Bear</em> Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Elizabeth Banks has promised her viewers no more than a bear on drugs, and a bear on drugs is what they get.
Pretty early into ’s running time, I started searching desperately for the metaphor. Elizabeth Banks’s action-comedy-horror is, , about a black bear in 1980s Georgia who eats a lot of cocaine that fell out of an airplane. The cocaine makes her angry and hungry for more cocaine, and given that she’s already a big bear with sharp claws, the combination is quite distressing for the people in the forest around her. I wondered as the bear mauled yet another victim on-screen. Perhaps a critique of selfish 1980s individualism: No amount of money or expensive products can protect you from a coked-up bear! Or maybe it’s a statement about the dangers of our modern world encroaching on nature?
