Fourl lions representation

Four lions is a film that was released on Film 4 in 2010. The film’s story follows a group of Muslim terrorists who wish to be suicide bombers. This film focuses on the touchy issue of Terrorism and how it often is drawn towards Muslim religion, and turns to make it into a comedy. The film’s representations of Muslims could be seen as a negative representation of them however, this is not the case when not looking at first glance. One important aspect of the film is that it is a comedy film, the four main characters whilst are terrorists, they are not the only Muslim characters, one character which is the brother of the main character Omar, is a Muslim but not a terrorist, this minor character contrasts the exaggerated and absurd main characters who are stereotypes, the stereotyped characters are where all the comedic aspects of the film comes from, and the film is likely made to laugh at the idea of the stereotypes themselves rather than just laugh at Muslims themselves because they think this is how Muslims all are. Despite the absurd stereotyped characters that the film focuses on, these main characters are also somewhat subverted from the stereotype, the main character Omar is portrayed as a critical thinking sympathetic character, despite the fact that they are terrorists and we should not be sympathizing with terrorists, this is because of the unique view that the film looks at terrorists, the stance the film looks at terrorists is similar to typical comedy films with a group of four, yet the comedy comes from the fact that they are terrorists. Because of the mocking of stereotypes and not offending Muslims with the use of characters, Four lions is very unique as it manages to make a comedy out of a topic that would usually cause offense.