One of my students emailed me the following about a trailer for a movie that
she saw in theatres this week. Has anyone heard of this? Is anyone aware of
any letter-writing campaigns against the film?
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Subject: Another great movie...
> This weekend I was at the movie theater watching "Jarhead". They
> showed a preview for a new movie with Johnny Knoxville that's coming
> out soon that I found absolutely distasteful, and I thought you may be
> interested to hear about it. The movie is called "The Ringer", and
> from what I could tell in the preview, it is about a "normal" adult
> (Johnny Knoxville) who pretends to be developmentally disabled in
> order to win the Special Olympics. As can be expected, the aid worker
> is of course a beautiful young woman, and the co-stars of the movie
> are all developmentally disabled people. The comedic element to the
> movie seems to be the behaviour of the real disabled people (of course
> we are to see them as infantile and cute), and Johnny Knoxville's
> imitation of their behaviour. I have to say that I didn't find it to
> be funny at all, and I was shocked at the fact that this is apparently
> still a topic that we can make fun of openly.
>
Claudia Malacrida, Ph.D.
Sociology
University of Lethbridge
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