Chris Morris of Brass Eye is back with his first ever feature film - a satire on Islamic suicide bombers. ThisIsLondon has published two reviews, one from their cinema critic and one from a British army captain who survived a suicide bomibing in Afghanistan. I thought the Army captain's review was particularly intelligent.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-2382...s-morris-did-next.do
Throughout my time in the Army, Chris Morris was a legend among many of my peers. Soldiers have a notoriously dark sense of humour, which I think is born of the strong sense of perspective that conflict brings and a necessarily ruthless approach to idiocy and hypocrisy, traits which have greater consequences in a firefight than at home. Morris has always had the ability to target ruthlessly the idiotic and hypocritical — most notably the media and celebrities who were
the deserving victims of his Brass Eye Paedophile Special — and he has lost none of his touch in Four Lions. The police may wince but the rationalisation of a CO-19 marksman later in the film that his victim can't have been the wrong target because he just shot him was beautifully observed.
The tabloid frenzy that followed the 2001 Brass Eye, largely the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the mirror, was inevitably sold as respect for the victims. I suspect that Four Lions will not outrage as much as some anticipate — but where it does, the line will probably be similar: to make light of terrorism in this way is disrespectful to the victims — and some things are no laughing matter.
As someone who has been at the pointy end, I couldn't disagree more. At one stage one of the terrorists accidentally blows himself up in a field of sheep: “Is he a martyr or is he a jalfrezi?” cries one of his dispirited friends. The joke goes far beyond the slapstick of the accidental death. The confusion among the group as to whether he has been properly martyred mirrors the genuine confusion I once heard among potential suicide bombers arrested in Helmand who had worried, not about blowing themselves up but that in the process their remains would become “unclean” by mixing with those of their infidel victims.
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