The NY Post editors put the hammer down on Vivendi Universal's plan to commerate 9/11 with a film "justifying" the terrorists:
Damn straight!A FRENCH OBSCENITY
It was bad enough that a French book claiming that the 9/11 attacks were in fact a Pentagon plot became a best-seller in the land of brie and baguettes, berets and betrayal.
Now the French film company Studio Canal (a subsidiary of the troubled Vivendi Universal conglomerate) has made a movie that apparently "commemorates" 9/11- by attacking America.
"11"09"01 September 11" is an omnibus film made up of 11 11-minute short films by directors from 11 different countries, inspired by the 9/11 events. The filmmakers were given "total freedom of expression" by the French studio.
All those elevens; how droll.
The Egyptian submission includes material justifying attacks on American and Israeli civilians.
The Iranian one concerns Persian fears of an American nuclear attack.
And the British entry, by lefty lensman Ken Loach, invokes the Chilean coup of Sept. 11, 1973, (oh, look - another 11) in the apparent belief that the event justified the bin Laden attacks.
But however clever this all may have seemed in Paris, here in New York it's not even mildly amusing.
And the "chilling effects" crowd can put it where the "sun doesn't shine".
Sure, a fool has the right to drool. (Though this is worse than foolish drooling.) And these filmmakers are all free to express themselves. (Though whatever would have happened to them if they were making films for viewing in, say, Tehran or Baghdad?)
But no film company is under any obligation to subsidize a repulsive film like this. The fact that Studio Canal's executives chose to do so is shameful.
And Americans should at least be aware, when they make their choices as consumers and shareholders, that these people who so shamelessly mock their dead are funded by the company that presently owns Universal Studios, USA Entertainment, Canal + Group, Universal Music Group, MP3 and the Houghton Mifflin publishers.
