The Identity and Passport Service's hilariously triste efforts to make ID cards cuddly has passed another millstone (shurely 'milestone?' - Ed). As a follow-up to plastering its propaganda with happy fingerprints, IPS now has a flash animation of them as well - derived, weirdly, from a movie you might be familiar with.
With a cast of several, IPS, The Movie re-enacts that famous scene from Spartacus with talking fingerprints. Grief, what were they thinking?
Here is the brilliant ad for your viewing amusement:
Yes what were they thinking? You remember Spartacus don't you? He was that SLAVE who headed a rebellion against his masters the ruling Romans? Yeah that guy, he ended DEAD and on a cross, put there as an example by his loving rulers. Yeah that Spartacus. (Man that Freud is a slippery bugger ain't he? ) Heh....Talk about spelling out your true intentions.
Original scene.
One of the best comments I have ever read and I couldn't say it better myself really so why would I even try?.
This has to be the worst propaganda ever, who on earth wants Spartacus to get caught? I guess that civil servants watching that movie must have thought that he was meant to be a rebellious, disobedient villain and consider it a strongly moral movie with a happy ending.
In that light, can I suggest a few other remakes that the government might like to consider?
Robin Hood - Applaud the noble Sherriff of Nottingham as he captures the desparate youth villain Robin the Hoodie and his entire gang of criminals by forcing everyone in Sherwood to carry ID cards. Laugh as he takes the last gold coin from a peasant family who forgot to update their address when they moved hovel!
The Great Escape - Pretty obvious this one - "Papieren Bitte" - celebrate as Germany's strong ID card system allows the dangerous jail-breakers to be recaptured before they can commit any crimes while on bail!
Star Wars - Relax in a feeling of smug satisfaction as the illegal attempt to release the terrorist suspect Leia from her entirely legitimate 28-day detention and waterboarding falls at the first hurdle when Luke and the rest can't produce biometric ID cards and the guards see through their trivial disguises before they even get out of the hangar on the Death Star!
Terminator - Arnie comes back from the future, logs into the ID card database, and is immediately able to track Susan Connor to her home address and dispatch her with ease, despite her best efforts to remain ex-directory. Rejoice as the world is saved from the danger of not ending up as a futuristic techno-dystopian machine-dominated nightmare reality!
etc. etc. etc... I feel sure that people will proudly want to associate themselves with the Roman Empire, Sherriff of Nottingham, Nazi soldiers, Imperial Stormtroopers, and remorseless amoral killing machines aimed at the destruction of all humanity.
Or at least that's who the government seems to /think/ our heroes should be.
Do I hear an Amen?
H/T Mutti
1 comment:
Amen from me.
OMG lol what were they thinking? Although they have actually shown their true colors by releasing this so it should backfire on them if people actually take a moment to THINK about it.
But that's all I can come up with - Wow.
lol.
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