It is my first time to wonder why IMDb rating does not have zero. The lowest rating of "1" is too generous for this video clip (It is not a film). Regardless from its political message or content but from a technical point of view the clip is too poor to get any recognition as a work of art or creativity. I doubt that the makers of this film have any film-making background or experience.After all the political fuss the film gained before it was released, I was expecting at least a minimum artistic value but could not find any at all.
With all the uproar about it before its release one would expect it offer some material for new debates, new theory, or reveal new facts or show anything new but it fails to do any of these. Its message is summed in one sentence "Muslims want to rule, submit, and seek to destroy our western civilization" such an awful generalization that has been used throughout history against people from different religion or race to discriminate them. Fitna is a collection of old overused terrorism video clips (some of them are very graphic and banned in US Media) mixed with some verses from Quran and footage from radical and extremist Muslims found in MEMRI website. It was funny at the end of the clip when it shows a hand (the narrator) about to tear a page from Quran then you only hear the sound of a page being ripped and a written text reads "The sound you heard was a page being removed from the phone-book" Why tearing a phone-book? I find it not only extremely lame but very contradicting. Why did not he dare to tear a page from Quran if it is such a bad book? Does he respect the holy book of Muslims? Of course not, the whole clip is about disrespect for Quran and Muslims. I think he has just been a "half-yellow"! The clip had a big media overage and had enough time and chance to come up with something genuine for such a hot topic but it was all wasted to come up with such a trash. Alas!
With all the uproar about it before its release one would expect it offer some material for new debates, new theory, or reveal new facts or show anything new but it fails to do any of these. Its message is summed in one sentence "Muslims want to rule, submit, and seek to destroy our western civilization" such an awful generalization that has been used throughout history against people from different religion or race to discriminate them. Fitna is a collection of old overused terrorism video clips (some of them are very graphic and banned in US Media) mixed with some verses from Quran and footage from radical and extremist Muslims found in MEMRI website. It was funny at the end of the clip when it shows a hand (the narrator) about to tear a page from Quran then you only hear the sound of a page being ripped and a written text reads "The sound you heard was a page being removed from the phone-book" Why tearing a phone-book? I find it not only extremely lame but very contradicting. Why did not he dare to tear a page from Quran if it is such a bad book? Does he respect the holy book of Muslims? Of course not, the whole clip is about disrespect for Quran and Muslims. I think he has just been a "half-yellow"! The clip had a big media overage and had enough time and chance to come up with something genuine for such a hot topic but it was all wasted to come up with such a trash. Alas!