"No Pressure" - Let's blow up people who don't agree with us!

In My Humble Opinion
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So apparently this short film/commercial’s makers thought it was “funny.” Obviously the general public didn’t agree, and it was pulled hours after it was aired. What do you guys think? Keep in mind, this was made by a pro green group.
No Pressure

Warning: A little bit gory, in an over the top sort of way.

Me, I don’t think it’s funny at all, and in very bad taste… My spouse, who isn’t exactly the most pro-green-agenda person on earth, thinks that the green movement is showing its true colors. How about you?

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I am amazed at the number of people who think this sort of thing is the true hidden character of the Green movement. Greens are generally too nice to fight seriously, too nice to win, too nice for their own good. Ever met a Green with a copy of Sun Tzu’s Art of War?

Even this: it’s very bloody, but it’s not all that effective. It’s too wry or something.

If the Greens’ “true colors” are raging hatred of their own power & doubt that they have any right to impose their will on the world, then sure.

Oh, there’s a Pit thread, we’ve been arguing about it there.

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Trying to be edgy but failing Id say.

Otara

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I got the impression they were trying to make fun of the passive-aggressive nature of the movement but missed the mark quite a bit.

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This for me has just about the opposite effect that the advertisers presumably intended, unless that intention was to instill a terroristic fear that some extralegal authority will kill me horribly for failing to participate in a ‘voluntary’ carbon emissions reduction program. Sorry, I know I can be excessively literal at times.

Besides that, let’s say I’m a British viewer sitting down to watch the telly and I wasn’t really intending to catch a splatter flick this evening. Getting blind-sided by that could be a bit distressing.

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As I said in the pit thread, this is an incredibly stupid idea.

Had it been me making an environmentalist film with the theme “No Pressure”, I would have either had the people dying portrayed as a natural consequence of their lack of commitment, or set it in a postapocalyptic wasteland, with characters displaying a similar degree of wishy-washyness about the environment. Either of these would have made procrastination about the environment the enemy, instead of making psychotic, murdering environmentalists the enemy.

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Ok, that’s it. I’m taking my carefully sorted recycling out of the bins and burning it, including the plastic. Especially the plastic.

I never did like this couch and the wife has been wanting a new one. What the hell, she’s at work, I’m burning it too.

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I just had another inspiration that only comes to me when I see quality public service ads like this.

The recycling bins themselves are plastic, I think I’ll torch them too.

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So we can say that this ad is actually against the 10:10 agenda?

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This is how it comes across to me, that it’s in opposition or that it’s saying “THIS is how fanatic these folks are”.

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I thought it was mildly amusing but only as a stand alone youtube video. I fully understand why the bit was pulled from advertising to promote a concept.

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That was horrible. I never saw that ending coming.

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I think th**[BOOM!]**

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I laughed.

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Since it was a frame-for-frame recreation of Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy” video, how could anyone have been surprised by the blood spatter?

That said, coercion tends to discredit moral suasion, even as a joke.

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Perhaps not everyone is familiar with Pearl Jam’s video oeuvre.

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Me, I don’t think it’s funny at all, and in very bad taste. Of course I’d say the same for most things on TV these days, so I’m apparently not keeping up with the times. But it’s not an environmental group showing its true colors, just an environmental group showing bad judgment.

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People under 30, I guess it’s conceivable, but most commentators I’ve read about this compare it to South Park or Monty Python. And some of them have to be over 30. It was a very ubiquitous video, back when MTV and VH-1 were in the business of showing those.

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I’m 36. I have never seen a Pearl Jam video. Or almost any other video made after 1992, for that matter.

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“Jeremy” was the first thing I thought of when I saw the beginning of the video. But evoking a video where a bullied kid blows his brains out in front of his whole classroom isn’t exactly the way I’d go if I was trying to persuade people to see my point of view. Maybe that’s just me. (BTW, I love the “Jeremy” video. It’s one of my favorites.)