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October 16, 2006
Movie About Suicide Bomber at Times Square Wins Moonbat Award
In light of movies like V for Vendetta, it's not easy for indies to keep up with the major studios when it comes to glorifying terrorism. But Julia Loktev must have done her very best with "Day Night Day Night," because it has been named Best Feature Film at the Woodstock Film Festival. Here's a synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes:
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision — she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in — we only know she believes it absolutely.
The Maverick Award went to filmmaker Barbara Kopple, whose subjects have included famous moonbats Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and the Dixie Chicks. Apparently no one has been enough of a maverick recently to do something really rebellious, like make a movie opposed to terrorism — or moonbattery.
On a tip from General Jack.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 16, 2006 4:12 PM
Comments
Someday the dimbulbs in Hollywood will finally realize that they are a prime target for Al Qaida: full of Jews and homosexuals, and the symbol (if not instrument) of Western cultural hegemony. WTC - economic hegemony; Pentagon - military hegemony; White House (presumably the fourth target) - political hegemony. What's left? Duh.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 16, 2006 8:02 PM
Congratulations on doing your homework - oh, wait, never mind. Because this movie wasn't even made in Hollywood, or financed by a Hollywood studio; you clearly haven't seen the movie; and you have no concept of the century of film history on which this film draws, going back to Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and Bresson's "Pickpocket." To say that "Day Night Day Night" glorifies terrorism is to make an ass of oneself; you either haven't seen the film, or are such a monumental ass that even seeing the film won't penetrate your thick, one-track skull.
Posted by: moviegoer at October 18, 2006 7:39 AM
Moviegoer, read the post slowly enough for your brain to keep up with your eyes and you'll see that I referred to the movie as an indy, in contrast to a Hollywood production.
Posted by: Van Helsing at October 18, 2006 8:08 AM
