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I don't know if it's available outside France. But Netflix has made a documentary in french about Marco Mouly "Les Rois de l'arnaque" / "Kings of the scam". The
by Beretta_Vexee 3y ago
I don't know if it's available outside France. But Netflix has made a documentary in french about Marco Mouly "Les Rois de l'arnaque" / "Kings of the scam". The least we can say is that he's a real piece of work.
Most of the people involved are such caricatures of sephard that you wouldn't put them in a work of fiction.
The man is a clown, boasts, lies, but at some point you can also see the fear in his eyes when his daughter is 15 minutes late because he fears for the lives of his loved ones.
It's really the story of a couple of small-time VAT fraudsters from a poor Parisian suburb who stumbled onto something way too big for them and got caught out by some real gangsters.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agohttps://www.netflix.com/title/81092697 https://www.netflix.com/title/81092697 Available in 33 countries: https://unogs.com/movie/81092697/lords-of-scam https://unogs.com/movie/81092697/lords-of-scam
- malshe 3y agoThanks for the Netflix link. I tried to read the story in earnest but couldn't understand the mechanics of the scam well. Probably the documentary will explain it more.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoWhat, praytell, is a caricature of a sephard?
- the-chitmonger 3y agoQuick google search brings up a subset of Spanish Jewish population. Not sure if this was a typo or if it's a very specific regional slur?
- rokkitmensch 3y agoI (a Jew) generally abhor the ADL and friends' behavior in public, but in this case I hope strongly for a typo. Figuring the best approach is to offer the poster the chance to present something plausible.
- Beretta_Vexee 3y agoThe two main Jewish populations in France are Sephardim and Askenazim. Both have associated stereotypes that are widely used in French Jewish humour. Sephardim are regularly portrayed as extravagant pokers player, huslters and show businessman. A good example of this stereotype is the film series "La vérité si je mens", "Would I Lie to You?" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120471/r https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120471/r. Marco Mouly is a poker player, huslter, fraudster, compulsive liar and many other thing. Even in a film or a standup he would be too much to be true.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoThose are the two major Jewish populations... everywhere. I know things are different in France, but in the States the rule is generally that "only the fat kid gets to make fat jokes", and making comments like "caricatures of sephard" is in extremely poor taste. France is also a tragicomically racist country, so "where I'm from" doesn't exactly cut the mustard for enlightened commentary. Just because we control the media doesn't mean that you can make jokes about it (and this is an example of the Jew telling Jew jokes).