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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? ----- Original Message ----- 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 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.