By Tina Nguyen, Media ITE
The director of a controversial film about the missing Malaysian Airlines flight has a lot of things to apologize for, but as of now, is only apologizing for at least one thing from his offensive trailer: the implied love triangle.
Screen shot of “The Vanishing Act.” Photo from Media ITE.
In case you weren’t aware, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing less than three months ago, and director Rupesh Paul decided not only to make a film about it, but also to premiere its trailer at the Cannes Film Festival, of all places. He also included a shot of two flight attendants making out, with a third looking on ominously. Why would there be a love triangle on the MH370, you might ask? We have some ideas, and all of them involve the word “tasteless.”
Admittedly, the plot of The Vanishing Act: The Untold Story of the Missing Malaysian Plane isn’t supposed to use actual facts about the tragedy itself, and is supposed to be based on a rejected theory of what happened to the plane. But that’s still missing the point. In fact, Paul’s life seems to be a sequence in which he continually misses the point, as the AP reports:
In a statement to The Associated Press, Rupesh Paul Productions said he was removing that element of the teaser trailer soon “so as not to hurt sentiments” of the families of those on the plane.
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