Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Evolution at dawn

Seven words you cannot say in kindergarten? All the usual suspects, including shit and fuck, and one surprise: evolution.

With the warning that his film contains "foul language and political thought", New Zealand-born techie Nathan Torkington’s humorous short satirises the ongoing creationism battles causing deep divisions in the US, where he now lives with his family.

Starring his own children swearing on camera, the film is a riff on comedian George Carlin's notorious Seven Dirty Words, prohibited from use on US broadcast media, aligning the controversy of censorious adults with the ongoing controversy of censoring evolution from school textbooks.

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