Oh For Fuck's Sake

[andrewducker]

Families who lost relatives in the 2005 London bomb attacks are appealing to cinemas not to show a British comedy about four aspiring suicide bombers.
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Graham Foulkes, who also lost his son in the bombings, said he and other relatives were appealing to cinemas not to show the British-funded film.

He acknowledged that humour had a part when it came to examining serious issues but said for his family, and others like them, the tragedy was still too raw.

Nobody is forcing him to go and see it, and he agrees that humour is a valid approach, but his answer is still to try to get cinemas to boycott it.

*headdesk*

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[cybik.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I read an article in which it said that Chris Morris had talked to several of the people injured in the 7/7 bombings about it and had their approval.

[andrewducker]

I'm sure that some of them are fine with it, and some of them are not.

It's already premiered in Bradford, without any problems at all.

It frustrates me that people want things banned because they don't approve of them. To me, the correct response is to not go, and publish a "I'm not going and I wish you wouldn't, and here's why."

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But many people think that if they don't like something it should be banned so as not to offend /them/ and think that because they are offended, so will other people. Which is, well, arrogant - who are they to be the arbiters of taste and decency? It's a bit like people watching the Turner prize and saying "well, that's not Art" when their whole reasoning boils down to: "I don't think it's pretty."

[andrewducker]

If it's not pretty it's not art! That's just the way it is! My kid could do better art than that stuff! Etc., etc.