"I smell a sitcom!"

I've grown over tired of hearing people rave about the film 'Bon Cop, Bad Cop' lately. For one thing, I'm sick of people calling it an original and proper treatment of cultural differences between the Ontario and Quebec side of the country. The premise of the film is not found in cultural differences between the two but the age old conservative vs liberal buddy-it-up film. This formula has been applied for decades.

What annoys me even more is the promotion of the stereotypes. The interesting thing is that people believe its an accurate portrayal of the relations that are taking place in our political system today. This reminds me more of more ancient days when the first rangers would travel to other villages and when they would come back they would tell tall tales of the inhabitants of other villages. If one ever takes an anthropology course, the subject of mythology will often times come up because of the wonderful, frightening or downright funny stories these traveling rangers would come back with. The idea that Ontarians are conservatives up-tights and Quebekers are liberal party-animals is something only an uneducated prick from middle of nowhere ville would believe to be a true portrayal.

Nonetheless, I find 'Bon cop, Bad cop' to be a milestone and a red-flag nowadays. I can simply sit back and have my "this guy's an idiot" red-flag go up with I hear somebody having appreciated the film because of the wonderful translation it has for both of our 'completely different cultures' and then go on to give me a Quebec bias joke they thought was amazing.

Dirt...