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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

UK farm terror kids PSA.



Now there’s an SEO keyword party out of bounds. There is much brilliance to be found in this long-ass evil UK PSA I don’t know where to start. Basically, it starts off showing boys doing what they do: playing cops and robbers based on their favorite TV show—in farm country. In this case, the show is Starsky and Hutch. (Listen to the dialog at approx. 1:54—it’s ‘the shite’ as they say over there.) And from a production standpoint, it’s actually shot just like an episode of TJ Hooker or the real Starsky and Hutch. But then, keep in mind as you watch that there’s this sense of impending doom as you try and figure out just what the danger lurking may turn out to be. Reading into things even more, is the metaphor of hiding found in so many scenes a deeper treatise on Friedrich Nietzsche when he said:
When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding “truth” within the realm of reason. If I make up the definition of a mammal, and then, after inspecting a camel, declare “look, a mammal” I have indeed brought a truth to light in this way, but it is a truth of limited value.”
Nah. It’s just a bizzare PSA I was sent a link to. Nietzsche. Here? You people kill me!

1 comment:

llcooljessie said...

Is this a PSA against having fun? I mean, the tractor thing, sure... that was dangerous. But how can you warn against playing near metal gates?