Hate Speech With a Smile

The Indian EXPRESS Hate speech case: If said with smile, no criminality, says HC 1 day ago হাইকোর্ট GH COURT

A rapid montage shows increasingly amused reactions from Willem Dafoe, Hannibal Lecter, Bellatrix Lestrange, Jack Nicholson, a nurse, and a laughing man while the same news card remains on screen: “Hate speech case: If said with smile, no criminality, says HC.” The joke treats the absurd legal headline as something so entertaining that every character gradually breaks into laughter; Kaito Shoma’s “Hotline” gives the 16.5-second clip a stylish, mischievous musical mood. EN: A rapid montage shows increasingly amused reactions from Willem Dafoe, Hannibal Lecter, Bellatrix Lestrange, Jack Nicholson, a nurse, and a laughing man while the same news card remains on screen: “Hate speech case: If said with smile, no criminality, says HC.” The joke treats the absurd legal headline as something so entertaining that every character gradually breaks into laughter; Kaito Shoma’s “Hotline” gives the 16.5-second clip a stylish, mischievous musical mood.

♪ Kaito Shoma — Hotline

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