The Baha'i Studies Listserv At 02:53 PM 11/10/2010, Matt wrote: >I found it to be somewhat of a satirical mockumentary. I'm not sure >if that was their intention starting out, but that's how it came together imo.
I had a somewhat similar reaction. It's been a long time since I watched it but I vaguely recall finding it pretty funny, but mixed with some unease because it was impossible to tell whether the investigators were as goofy as they appeared to be or if they were just putting on for the camera - following a very loose script. And I seem to remember it lacked any kind of satisfying ending. Sort of like watching an old Gilda Radner "Emily Litella" piece on the 1970's Saturday Night Live program's Weekend Update segment where she goes through a long sequence of impassioned misunderstandings which always rapped up with "Oh! Well, that's very different.... Never mind." In the Internet age I'd think they would have had to be willfully ignorant to know as little as they seemed to about Baha'is, while still knowing things that most Baha'is weren't even aware of. The biggest problem I had with it, though, is that I never felt I could share it with anyone because I'm afraid most Baha'is wouldn't recognize the humor. (Or, perhaps I should say they might feel it wasn't at all funny. Maybe horrifying?) Kind of a minor, if guilty, pleasure - maybe a little along the lines of the movie: "The Gods Must Be Crazy". John B. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-538738-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
