Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
I can see why someone might find it distasteful or disrespectful .. and I wouldn't call them myopic.Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
I don't personally think it's funny, but, there will always be "gallows" humour. It's sometimes the way people cope with horrendous situations. If you think about how Mash used to make folks laugh even though the subject matter was so serious. Like I said, it's all too raw at the moment. Also I think there's a culture difference, in some countries they're cutting off people's hands for theft and stoning people for infidelity, they're not as sensitive as us so they probably wonder why we're not laughing.Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
I think the trick here is perhaps that they have married comedy to tragedy in order to draw out the insanity in the situation. The British Comedy film, "Four Lions" did this brilliantly. In places it was hilariously funny, in others horrifyingly tragic. Real life tends to be like that. No-one watching it would have been pleased when the hapless Jihadis blew themselves up at the end, just saddened at the tragic waste of young lives in a ridiculous cause. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
Re: Selfi Jihad - what a great way!
The latest Jesus and Mo cartoon is an excellent example of using black humour to attack horrible situations. (Jesus and Mo is a cartoon strip featuring imaginary conversations between Jesus and Mohammed, often in the pub with an atheist barmaid)Thread Tools | |
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