Families of 7/7 victims ask for Four Lions boycott

The families of victims in the July, 2005 terrorist bombings ask UK cinemas not to screen the film.

Travel Insurance News - 06/05/2010

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Several families whose relatives died in London five years ago are unhappy about a comedy with close parallels to the terrorist bombings. Cast and crew from the film insist the comedy plays an important role in British life. Family members, however, see the film as an attempt to cash in on tragedy.

A series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on public transport in London on 7 July, 2005, left 56 people dead. Four men from Yorkshire who were upset about Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War died in the attacks, which killed 52 other people and left some 700 people wounded.

Families feel the events are still too fresh in peoples’ minds and the emotional wounds still to raw. In addition, many see too many similarities in the film’s plot for it to be simply a universal story of bumbling fools.

Claims that the film is founded in the heritage of applying satire and parody to the examination of major issues are refuted by survivors of the bombings. They point to key aspects of the Four Lions story and say the plot is too specific.

The film features four incompetent young men from Yorkshire. The 7/7 bombers were all from Yorkshire. Upsetting parallels aside, some simply question the comedic value of building bombs to kill innocent victims on the London underground.

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