This Amnesty International Movie Theater Stunt is Shockingly Un-Shocking

Steve Hall

Dec. 01, 2013
1 min read

As movie theater stunts go, this one’s pretty tame. But this one’s for a good cause. For Amnesty International, Ukraine-based Tabasco created a stunt in the middle of a movie in which a bunch of guards enter the theater, arrest a guy and then arrest another guy (a lawyer) who attempts to question the arrest. The whole thing ends with the lights going down and a human rights violation message filling the screen.

Oddly, it’s like everyone in the theater is in on the stunt, not just the arrested man, the lawyer and the guards. The level of calm is admirable given the entrance of a bunch of masked men in camouflage gear. Then again, maybe this is normal in the Ukraine.

Steve Hall

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