Maybe it´s because I´m German but I didn´t believe the labour camp story for even a nanosecond. Like maisedoat said, that´s the exact same thing the Nazis told the Jews. The family is not sent to an internment camp, Britain is not at war, they were not attacked by another country and these people are not a security threat.
However, they need places to live and most of all, food to eat. Half the country is an irradiated wasteland, lots of farmland lost, the borders are closed, no aid coming in and no one can leave. The Adipose decide to relocate to the United States which basically tells you everything you need to know. No more fat people in the UK. Not enough food for everyone. So you pick a group of people that no one will make a fuss about, spread a comforting lie that no one believes but will allow people to sleep at night and reduce the number of mouths to feed, either by firing squad, gas chamber or by simply taking them somewhere remote and out of sight where they can quietly starve to death.
Any doubters thinking it´s something more benign or rather slightly less evil should listen to the podcast commentary where the director talks about how he filmed Donna´s arrival in Leeds like "a WWII evacuation with Auschwitz just around the corner".
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Date: 2008-06-23 01:54 pm (UTC)However, they need places to live and most of all, food to eat. Half the country is an irradiated wasteland, lots of farmland lost, the borders are closed, no aid coming in and no one can leave. The Adipose decide to relocate to the United States which basically tells you everything you need to know. No more fat people in the UK. Not enough food for everyone. So you pick a group of people that no one will make a fuss about, spread a comforting lie that no one believes but will allow people to sleep at night and reduce the number of mouths to feed, either by firing squad, gas chamber or by simply taking them somewhere remote and out of sight where they can quietly starve to death.
Any doubters thinking it´s something more benign or rather slightly less evil should listen to the podcast commentary where the director talks about how he filmed Donna´s arrival in Leeds like "a WWII evacuation with Auschwitz just around the corner".