Disturbing Friday Fun: The 9/11 Mime

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March 9th, 2007 at 11:30 by C J Davies

Disturbing Friday Fun, then: a weekly 'feature' in which we provide you with a link to a baffling, unsettling, odd or - as the title says - downright disturbing thing we've found on the interweb.

Look - we never said originality was in our remit. Okay?

Anyway. Settle down. This week we've got a treat for you. If felt that the sensitive, thought-provoking depiction of 9/11 in last year's United 93 would have worked better had the victims been wearing berets, gloves and comical facepaint, then - boy oh boy - this is the You Tube clip for you.

A social commentary on September 11th? Via the medium of mime? Phew - we wouldn't want to be a terrorist today!

That's right. Forget the old 'trapped in a box' routine, kids. What the artform really needs is a Chaplinesque re-enactment of the WTC collapse. With a soundtrack by Enya.

For once we are genuinely speechless.

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3 Responses to “Disturbing Friday Fun: The 9/11 Mime”

  1. Will Bright Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    What. The. Fuck. Is. That. ?.

  2. Tony Mimekiller Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    When “normal “people treat you like this,

    http://www.alangalloway.com/mimes.html

    http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/looneybin/mimes.htm

    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Mime

    why wouldn’t you react like that?

  3. Shiver Says:
    March 9th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    I can’t believe I just watched that whole thing. I’m going to put my head in the oven for awhile now.

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