Now, we are to expect that (especially) the first scene of this film (with the teacher and little kids) was a "joke?" Meant to be "funny?" Imagine some kids watching it.
Also, please remember this VW ad, and all the outrage it caused. Finally (I'm not going to watch the film again), wasn't it very, um, white?
Scaring kids in school is nothing new. Global warming is only the latest example.
Toward the end of the Cold War, with the left’s attempts at undermining President Reagan’s attempt to at least not lose to the Soviets, teachers were encouraging kids to express their fears and feelings about nuclear war, and presented it as if were the preference of President Reagan and the right in this country, and presented the Soviets as, at worst, neutral.
Of course, a young innocent mind cannot understand that there are things worse than a quick death by nuclear attack.
—Like the reality that is the history of those who the Communists/Soviets enslaved, brutalized, sent to “re-education camps” and gulags, kidnapped in the dark of night from their beds, and even just shot in a soundproof execution room in the basement of some government building or in a line of prisoners shot one at a time in front of a trench, killing 100 million of them in the 20th century.
Those same teachers prefer not to teach that though. That is somehow not “tolerant”. And so ends human history in the Marxist sense (and as far as our public schools are concerned), in the politics of the emotional.
I do remember it. I thought it was hilarious and a creative and timely way to tout the structural integrity of a vehicle.
Also, please remember this VW ad
Oh, that one was funny. Until I clicked through, I thought you were referring to the "If Teddy Kennedy had been driving a VW" Beetle ad (early 1970s).