Fitna Vlutna

Have I seen it?
Yes, the english version because I couldnt get the dutch one to load...

What did I think?
One word: crap.
Oh maybe two: cheap crap.

I mean come on. You tell us in December that you are going to make a movie about Islam. You hijack public debate for nearly 4 months. And you dare show up with this cheap shit?? If I were a professional politician I'd be highly embarassed. Anyone can do better on the average I-Mac. There is no originality whatsoever. Look at Van Gogh's and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's movie 'Submission'! Horrible stuff too but at least its got art, originality, creativity! Naked female bodies with text displayed on them is, whatever you think of it, a form of art.

This, is just well, nothing. One big copy paste action from other sources...

Btw, you do realize that you kind of lost any and all of the little believability you had right? Yanking random images out of their context and linking them to Quranic verses also out of their (historic and theological) context is unlikely to convince anyone of the fantasy world you are living in.

Oh, and you made a couple of mistakes. Although I guess you are aware of those by now... that picture you used to portray the assassin of Theo van Gogh is in fact someone else. A rapper who photographed himself dressed like the murderer to show that not all people who look alike, are alike. Which is a very clever form art btw. Actually it only shows that you on the other hand are utterly and totally incapable of distinguishing among all the different shades of gray between black and white. Another mistake is that it is pretty normal to request permission for the use of other people's art. The Danish cartoonist never gave his permission so you are kind of breaking the law there.

Then you go on showing numbers of muslims in The Netherlands... around 1905 about 50, around 1965 about 400.000, around 2004 about 1million and then in 2007 you give a number of a whopping 57million! And in the small print you mention that this number is actually the number of muslims in the whole of Europe. I mean wtf? Please, please for the sake general intelligence, next time hide your manipulation a tiny bit better. I beg of you! My intellect nearly feels offended.

Other than that after watching your movie I am left with the nagging feeling that you did get a tiny bit scared. Showing a page of the Quran being flipped, going black and hearing the sound of a page being ripped out is all good and well. But it's a bit chicken to tell me that 'This was a page from the phonebook' ... same with the utterly bad animation of the danish cartoon: counting down to explosion, going black and... no explosion but an euhm... thunderstorm...??? Like in NO explosion???

You know what? I kind of think this was all a thunderstorm in a glass of water.

Loser.