The Infidel (2010)Rating 4.25/5.0
Where 5 is a life changing Czechoslovakian film which also won an Oscar (they do get it right sometimes)!
The first thing that strikes you about this film is that it released in the same year as Four Lions and although the story is very different, the similarities are quite encouraging. Films have the potential to stimulate thought amongst those who are too brainwashed with jargon to think on their own. We're all brainwashed, aren't we? We can hardly claim to have independent, impartial thought - influenced as we are by our surroundings and our teachers and the messages they have chosen to give us.
The best way to provoke free thought amongst such an audience is to truly entertain and then stealthily inject the thought grenade - a good comedy with a dash of pathos does this really well. It sounds like a conspiracy but it really is all for a good cause.
I hope people come out after watching this film not only with a smile and spring in their step but also with a ticking thought bomb - something that may erupt some day to answer questions that no film, prophet or book can.
If that sounds too heavy then why not watch this just to laugh like a mad man. Maybe your subconscious will do the rest :-)
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