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Originally Posted by GreenPea
Ugh, it is a joke. I have the feeling the reason for these lawsuits is '$$$' rather than hurt feelings.
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You don't feel like this is taking advantage of people in a desperate situation? I'm hoping to hear a good argument against feeling this way about it, because I'd like to see the movie, but don't feel comfortable about it when it's for laughs at the expense of people in such a difficult situation.
From a new article about the same subject:
Residents and local officials in the hardscrabble hamlet 85 miles northwest of Bucharest said Tuesday they were horrified and humiliated to learn their abject poverty and simple ways were ridiculed for a movie now raking in millions at box offices worldwide.
"We thought they came here to help us _ not mock us," said Dana Luca, 40, sweeping a manure-stained street lined with shabby homes of crumbling brick and corrugated iron sheeting.
"We haven't got anything here. We haven't got running water. We can't even bathe," she said. "We are poor people, but we are still people."