October 16, 2005

If you haven't heard, there's a new Unicef campaign. This time instead of using real images of people and children, they decided to go with the next best thing...Smurfs.

I saw a bit of this video and it was strange to say the least. The video starts off with the Smurfs being all smurf like...dancing, singing and having a good ol' time. Then out of no where their village gets bombed and they start running for their lives. The houses are on fire, there are dead smurfs left and right and there's one baby smurf crying surrounded by all the dead one's. Uhm, ok.

You can go to the Unicef website and read about the campaign and the purpose behind the video here: http://www.unicef.org/media/media_28772.html
The campaign is supposed to focus and bring awareness of the effects war has on children.

Seems like people are so desensitized to REAL pictures of people and children suffering that to grab more attention and empathy, they had to go ahead and kill The Smurfs. Lovely.

If you haven't seen the clip go here: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14542435
or do your own search.