Disturbing Friday Fun: The 9/11 Mime

by C J Davies on March 9, 2007 3 Comments

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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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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Will Bright March 9, 2007 at 12:51 pm

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

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Tony Mimekiller March 9, 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?

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Shiver March 9, 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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