Terrorism Is About Ideology … And Idiots
So says Chris Morris, legendary British satirist, whose new jihadi ‘farce’ movie, Four Lions, premiers at Sundance tomorrow. For more details see this post from last January and watch an excerpt here, in which our cunning protagonist demonstrates his strategy for buying large quantities of hydrogen peroxide. Wonderful.
Expect howls of outrage from all quarters, calls for a ban, and general comment and misrepresentation from people who won’t have seen it. I haven’t seen it either but being familiar with Morris’ output over the years I can guarantee that reactions to the film will tell you everything you need to know about how incapable British society is of laughing at itself these days. He never fails to touch the nerve of the moment, and terrorism is certainly it.
That’s very funny. I loved the “IRA voice” line.
I’m going to do my terrorist voice next time I buy milk or something. See if anyone notices…
I think the terroism can be new religion for some idiots….
Hehe. That’s a very good way of looking at it.
It’ll be especially comic if, amid the howls of outrage that Morris usually generates, the Daily Mail and Jihadis For Fairness find themselves uncomfortable bedfellows..
Stranger things have happened…
I hear the film’s going to be on general release in the UK in April/May, so I’m sure the Mail, for one, is priming its bile-pump as we speak.