The world's first suicide bomber comedy
Via The Daily Dish, a clip of a film called "Four Lions" which may well be the world's first English-language comedy about...suicide bombing?
The filmmaker, Chris Morris, is a British comedian who apparently has no problem attracting controversy. From The Mirror's article about the movie:
This is actually a point I find myself agreeing with. Admittedly, the clip made me laugh. (His voice never changes - and the beard thing! Hilarious.) I think the more seriously we take terrorism the more it accomplishes its goal of creating, well, terror. When the Bush Administration made the choice to declare a War on Terror after 9/11, instead of treating the attacks as heinous criminal acts, it escalated the gravity of the terrorists themselves. It made them larger than life, gave their actions more power. A film like this brings terrorists back down to earth. They're just people, right? Horribly-intentioned people.
I look forward to hearing the Current Movies review from Sundance!
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The filmmaker, Chris Morris, is a British comedian who apparently has no problem attracting controversy. From The Mirror's article about the movie:
Key scenes from the film are said to include a farcical suicide bomb plot at a Sheffield fun run that sees the bombers dressed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle outfits....Despite the film’s contentious subject matter, Morris seems undeterred by the hullabaloo that will inevitably greet the movie. "Most of us would dearly love to laugh in the face of our worst fears”, he says. “Why aren't we laughing at terrorists? Because we didn't know how to, until now."
This is actually a point I find myself agreeing with. Admittedly, the clip made me laugh. (His voice never changes - and the beard thing! Hilarious.) I think the more seriously we take terrorism the more it accomplishes its goal of creating, well, terror. When the Bush Administration made the choice to declare a War on Terror after 9/11, instead of treating the attacks as heinous criminal acts, it escalated the gravity of the terrorists themselves. It made them larger than life, gave their actions more power. A film like this brings terrorists back down to earth. They're just people, right? Horribly-intentioned people.
I look forward to hearing the Current Movies review from Sundance!
Recently on the Current News Blog:
- Hillary creates China kerfuffle over internet freedom speech
- How people are helping Haiti
- Supreme Court opens doors to corporate money
- China to start watching texts
- Haiti: Challenges to come
