Movie review: Fitna
Hey, Geert, your movie is a peace of shit. And I’m not even talking about the content. No I’m talking about the actual execution of it.
Crappy stock SFX? Check. Crappy masking on video? Check. Papyrus as a “script” font? Check. It’s like you put some freshman behind a Mac Pro with a pirated copy of Final Cut Pro and you just spewed ideas at him while he frantically tried to figure out how to right-click with the Mighty Mouse.
Now, about the content itself. I’m going to focus on the latter half of the movie (“The Netherlands under the spell of Islam”), because the first half consists of video, audio and pictures anyone with a passing concern with radical Islam has seen on the internet.
First we scary charts! An increasing number of muslims in Holland since 1909. Oh! And there are shots of lots of satellite dishes, as a nod to the most base racist joke any yokel can make. Then there’s some footage from the murder on Theo van Gogh and a nice ironical postcard with pictures of mosques. Because, haha, THE MUSLIMS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!
Oh, but then we get a glimpse of this scary future with shots of radical muslims with captions such as “The future of Holland?”, “Women” without of course forgetting the “CHILDREN”!
The thing that actually offended me the most was near the end. You see a hand gripping a page of the Koran and then picture fades to black. You hear the sound of a page tearing. Then it says “This was just a page of a phonebook”. Come on, if you’re going to be anti-Islam at least have the balls to actually tear out a page of the Koran.
I don’t really see how this movie is anything other than a propaganda piece preaching to the choir. Does not get FSFunky’s stamp of approval. But you probably just see it so you know what you’re talking about when it will become the inevitable topic of discussion.