SIFF hot take June 04, 2017 at 09:07PM
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ironymaidenForever Pure
would you like to have someone piss all over your faith in humanity? check out Forever Pure, where right-wing Israeli soccer fans literally set their club on fire because the team hired a couple of guys from Chechnya. on fire, as in burnt up their trophies. walk out of the stadium because the Muslim player scores a goal. stop coming to games at all. (also, there's this whole thing where all these racist fans are, well, brown people who look exactly like the brown people they hate when we see them play a game vs the "Arab" team.) anyhoo, everyone who was horrible gets rewarded and everyone who wasn't a vicious racist loses their job and the team makes Europa League as soon as the Chechens leave. yes, it's a documentary.
would you like to have someone piss all over your faith in humanity? check out Forever Pure, where right-wing Israeli soccer fans literally set their club on fire because the team hired a couple of guys from Chechnya. on fire, as in burnt up their trophies. walk out of the stadium because the Muslim player scores a goal. stop coming to games at all. (also, there's this whole thing where all these racist fans are, well, brown people who look exactly like the brown people they hate when we see them play a game vs the "Arab" team.) anyhoo, everyone who was horrible gets rewarded and everyone who wasn't a vicious racist loses their job and the team makes Europa League as soon as the Chechens leave. yes, it's a documentary.
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Date: 2017-06-05 04:51 pm (UTC)Also found this article on the harassment the director got after the film.
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Date: 2017-06-05 05:22 pm (UTC)This showing was particularly hard for me: I've been sick, so I was at a movie instead of in the stadium watching my local soccer team...which meant that the very full crowd were not people who were interested in the game. The crowd chatter on the way out was very much about Evil Sports Fans, not evil racists or evil Israeli politics.
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Date: 2017-06-05 06:46 pm (UTC)