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-- "Let's All Hate Toronto" documentary @ Hot Docs festival
"Let's All Hate Toronto" documentary @ Hot Docs festival
Erm, people don't like Toronto?!?!?
"Let's All Hate Toronto"
TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) -- The dislike of Canada's biggest city, Toronto, in the rest of the country runs so deep that a filmmaker has made a documentary about it.
"People in Toronto are soulless, one-eyed corporate zombies," Joey Keithley, of the Vancouver punk band D.O.A., says in the film, "Let's All Hate Toronto."
The 73-minute film, which premieres at Toronto's Hot Docs documentary festival next week, follows a character called Mister Toronto, who embarks on a cross-Canada trip brandishing a sign that reads "Toronto Appreciation Day" and steels himself for the onslaught.
His tour leads from Newfoundland on the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific city of Vancouver, where feelings against Toronto -- usually acknowledged as the country's financial center and the cultural capital of English Canada -- run deepest of all.
"There is something different (about hating Toronto). People are more passionate about it," filmmaker and co-director Albert Nerenberg said in an interview.
"People have a grudging respect for New York outside of the city, and have a grudging respect for London. But people outside of Toronto don't have that for Toronto, they really don't."
Nerenberg, who is from Montreal, got the idea for the film from a 1956 publication with the same name as the movie.
He said collective dislike of a city is not unique to Canada, and said he might like to make similar films on other countries' love-hate relationships with major cities.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Mov...reut/index.html
who cares what the rest of canada thinks (ie. hillbillies from out west and dumbass frenchmen)
f all of them
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| Originally posted by Special K who cares what the rest of canada thinks (ie. hillbillies from out west and dumbass frenchmen) f all of them |
haha
I want to watch this.
Help me make a decision whether to relocate to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal 
The author of the documentary is nothing but an attention whore.
*yawn* in my opinion anyways.
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK I want to watch this. Help me make a decision whether to relocate to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal |
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| Originally posted by lol internet The author of the documentary is nothing but an attention whore. *yawn* in my opinion anyways. |
If there's one thing that truly unites Canadians it's our national pastime of bashing Toronto. This tongue-in-cheek road doc follows "Mister Toronto" as he embarks on a coast-to-coast Toronto Appreciation tour, encountering "recovering Torontonians" and those who would be quite happy never to step foot in our fair city. Are we really Torauma, Onterrible? Yes, according to a "professional Toronto hater." And in Newfoundland they finally discover the answer to a question that has boggled them for ages: Why do all the trees point west? ("Because Toronto sucks that much.") Can the city that the United Nations cited as the world's most culturally diverse really be that bad? Or is the rest of Canada just a little envious of our obvious superiority among Canada's metropolitan centres? Let's All Hate Toronto gets to the bottom of Toronto resentment and envy.
Source: http://hotdocs.bside.com/?_view=_fi...filmId=15410885
I will be seeing this Friday for FREE!!!
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| Originally posted by eRRaTiK I want to watch this. Help me make a decision whether to relocate to Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal |
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