Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
At Cloverfield last night I was momentarily startled by a poster for an upcoming new movie: Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
I see Guantanamo as somewhere below the Japanese internment camps and above the German concentration camps. Below the Japanese camps because the white house has taken outlandish legal measures to deprive them of due process and because I'm not aware of any deliberate, institutionalized torture happening in the Japanese camps, above the German camps for obvious reasons.
Now I realize that HKEFGB could possibly turn out to be a satirical yet biting piece of immortal political satire to follow in the footsteps of "Little Dictator". But this seems unlikely; the trailer seems a lot closer to the Club Gitmo school of humor.
What's next? Harold & Kumar escape from The Bataan Death March? Nanking? It's like the Mel Brooks "Inquisition" routine without the self-aware irony. Using a war crime as a premise for comedy - especially an ongoing war crime - is going to be a tough feat to pull off.
I see Guantanamo as somewhere below the Japanese internment camps and above the German concentration camps. Below the Japanese camps because the white house has taken outlandish legal measures to deprive them of due process and because I'm not aware of any deliberate, institutionalized torture happening in the Japanese camps, above the German camps for obvious reasons.
Now I realize that HKEFGB could possibly turn out to be a satirical yet biting piece of immortal political satire to follow in the footsteps of "Little Dictator". But this seems unlikely; the trailer seems a lot closer to the Club Gitmo school of humor.
What's next? Harold & Kumar escape from The Bataan Death March? Nanking? It's like the Mel Brooks "Inquisition" routine without the self-aware irony. Using a war crime as a premise for comedy - especially an ongoing war crime - is going to be a tough feat to pull off.