It’s been an awesome day — I won free tickets to tonight’s cinema screening of Four Lions plus Q&A session with the cast and director. Oh no, it’s not a new movie; this was just to celebrate its DVD launch. Regardless, thanks, @LOVEFiLM!
The story surrounds four hopeless British Muslims who are determined to become jihadists, but as time goes on, they continually let themselves down with some hilarious ignorance and missteps (no spoilers here, but let’s just say there are explosions).
While this dark slapstick comedy’s a tad slow at certain points, the laughs were big laughs, plus the thorough research put into it makes it worthwhile for a lighthearted evening. In fact, since it’s not the Simon Pegg kind of exaggerated humor (no disrespect, though), I actually left the cinema thinking these idiots could very well exist in real life. Touch wood.
Oh, and Kayvan Novak — the dude behind Fonejacker and Facejacker — was brilliant in the film.
