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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sean Clarke

Defining tragedy

Our Cyber cinema feature - a regular trawl through some of the excellent short films out there on the web - frequently turns up a gem. (My all-time favourite, since you ask, was this one).

But it rarely throws up anything quite as shocking in its simplicity as this breathtaking little movie. It's a soundtrack of comments by rightwing US shock jock Michael Savage to the effect that the Indian Ocean tsunami was "no tragedy" and that he "doesn't want a cent of his money going to these people".

The film-makers then simply play that soundtrack over a series of images of the devastation and its victims. Uncomplicated, and unavoidably manipulative, but very effective.

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