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Danny examines the idea of corruption, how it bends rules and how it benefits only a few, harming many others in one way or another. Even the film’s visual style, a homage to the Belgian classic
Man Bites Dog (read more in Petkov’s interview), and premise become an analysis of corruption in a more general sense, as we follow a film crew led by a British journalist (
Kate Nichols) who has been promised an exposé on money laundering by Bulgarian small-town councillor and entrepreneur “extraordinaire” Danny (
Dimo Alexiev). The only problem is that as soon as Danny sees the camera, his own plans for the shoot take centre stage, with demented dreams of making a film that will take Hollywood by storm.
Slate, Shankar Vedantam of the
Washington Post informs us how Science explains why Juan Williams is made nervous by Muslims on flights:
Juan Williams told Bill O Reilly that he gets nervous at airports when he sees Muslims. For this, Williams has been roundly denounced as a bigot. But Williams association between innocent Muslims and the perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks was less about bigotry–at least, bigotry conventionally defined–than about his mind working normally. To live in America in the post-9/11 age and not have at least some associations between Muslims and terrorism means something is wrong with you.