Patterson, Harold and Kumar Post

The film’s message was one of ignorance in the American government. I think the film was portraying how ridiculous and naive government officials can be. This is shown through racial profiling, the use of marijuana, and most of all, the Department of Defense official Fox. In the film, Fox was making ridiculous assumptions and being completely racist on several occasions. He pours grape soda out in front of the black witness in hopes of him confessing information about Harold and Kumar. He does the same to Harold and Kumar’s Jewish friends, but with coins. When they plead the fifth amendment, Fox asks his assistant for a copy of the Bill of Rights, which completely mocks American government and the unqualified people running it. In addition, every government official in the film was willing and wanting to smoke weed, including President Bush, who had a specialized type of it. While every government official is portrayed as extreme and ridiculous, the other characters, like Harold and Kumar, are shown as the only sane ones who are making sense. The fact that in the film the “rednecks” turned out to be sophisticated and have a stylish home, and the black witness was an orthodontist stresses the fact that America, and the American government in particular, makes uninformative suggestions and carry these ideas to the extreme. While it was a complete exaggeration of most of these issues, the film still touched on the political message that America is very quick to judge “the other” while being ignorant about itself and it’s citizens.