Only in America

...No one is saying America has police operating like in the movie... /facepalm

And there is no research done to back up your claims to say there are as many ''dumb'' common folk in Britain as in America (percentage wise) /double hand facepalm

You sound pretty dumb.

And there is nobody in the UK thick enough to fall fall it!

You said it... "this movies has nothing to do with better policing"...

I can't believe why so many people keep missing the point, and talk about the US , the UK, the service industry and all kind of nonsense..

When the story is a parable, a very simple one. We all listen to an inner voice that makes us do wrong things sometimes. It's NOT the voice to be blamed but rather the lack of a working, discerning moral compass that should tell us what is right and what is wrong, and act on the right and resist and refuse doing the wrong.

That's it. That's all. And STOP worrying about all the petty stuff that distracts us all.


A genius amongst morons is just another moron.

Lol I love this America bashing, it reminds me that we're still on top. Everyone knows and criticizes the class president, no one knows of or gives a sh*t about the kid in the back of the room who gets straight C's (I'm looking at you UK).

All joking aside though, I'm a doctor from NJ/NYC area who used to produce music in Europe in my mid 20's (2007-8) before I started my residency & the sentiment of these boards is an internet only phenomena. I spent months at a time in London/Bristol/Brighton UK, Koln, Bologna, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, etc. meeting dozens of people each night at clubs/studios and let me tell you real people don't give a damn where you're from as long as you're not a jackass. This whole "the world hates America thing" may apply to their general view of what the media reports with the usual bias on foreign policy or certain sub-groups of people's extreme beliefs but it's a product of the internet not something that carries over to when you actually meet face to face.

In my travels most of the people I interacted with were educated and very social people - none of whom thought Americans were any different than the rest of the Western World's population. I mean the US has rednecks/thugs/illegals and the UK has pikeys/gypsys/illegals - it's all the same through the rest of Europe as well; and while I hate generalizations I have to say this, that out of the 1000+ Europeans/British I met throughout all this it seems that while the average European may know a little more about random trivia and global affairs on average, the Americans I know seemed to be more down to Earth and focused/mature on average. By that I mean I met so many Europeans who just float around doing not much of anything (even though they're quite well read) vs most of the guys I knew at home or met over there who were American (as well as Canadian) were making something of themselves via career or working on something ambitious. There were plenty of exceptions but it was definitely a trend I noticed.

The one bit of truth I will admit to about all this though is the US police & govt being much more invasive and much less "of the people" than those in other countries. It seems our police force exists as a cash machine and often a haven for those with anger issues (and this is coming from my 2 uncles and 2 cousins that are officers in urban NJ) which has become almost a force working against the people over the last few decades.

I don't want to go on and on (too late lol) but I had my car towed and I was brought to the police station for forgetting to re-new my license, and had to pay $600 in fines. My license wasn't suspended, I just forgot to re-new it by a month and was never sent the form. That's just one example but it reminds me of when I saw 2 officers fish 2 drunk dudes out of a canal in the red-light district of Amsterdam. As Americans, my production partner and I were like "oh wow this guy's finished!!" only to see the officers pull them out, laugh, bow to the crowd in jest, and drive off. So while the "only in America" regarding this movie may be true (of the Western World of course, American police are puppy dogs compared to the rest of the world) it's not bc of dumber citizens, but less freedom and more oppressive policing.

WOW, I've never written anything so long on IMDB before!!

I still can't believe it's happened over 70 times!!!

I wish people would study some basic statistics, learn what normal distribution is, and how intelligence follows a normally distributed pattern. Then they would stop posting *beep* such as "all Americans are dumb" and "all British people are very intelligent."

The truth is that the majority of people throughout the world are on average similarly intelligent, while a small percentage is either more intelligent or less intelligent that the average individual. This is of course without taking into account impoverished countries where malnutrition and disease will affect intelligence.

I think some people here are missing the point totally - this film wasn't a dig at Americans or any race/country or how stupid/gullible that country is, it was a dig at how far one person could push another person into fulfilling his strange 'fantasies'.

This has turned into a bit of a America vs the World internet fight and it makes me smile how easily people start ranting on about this country or that country simply because ONE film dealt with ONE idea set in ONE country.

The main fault/blame lies with Sandra who was unfortunately so dim & scared of her business failing, lack of any good management skills and complete lack of correct procedures, that this happened.

Bear in mind at the beginning, it said "Based on True Events". Based as in "it might've happened something like this, maybe."

When the "policeman" first phoned up, fair enough, but when it started with all the undressing/spanking/sex acts/getting fiance to guard her etc. it did make me question the sanity of the manageress.

Normal people would simple say to the 'policeman' - "No - you & your officers get here & do it yourself" - regardless of what country they're from.

Just because it was set in America, doesn't make ALL people like that.

If it had been a French film, would this thread be all about how thick the French are?

HAHA you have just proven my whole point lol

Jacintha Saldanha is not British you dick! She is Indian. And the European man is also not British.

You really are thick!