Practice shows that tightening laws only partially saves from extra mouths. That is why some countries have decided to put into practice Lenin's postulate that cinema is the most powerful means of influencing the masses. More precisely, horror films.
Australia was the first state to try to fight off representatives of the 'third world' with the help of cinema. This country is known for its endless beaches, warm ocean, kangaroos, and the prosperous existence of its inhabitants. Such PR, as it turned out, is good for tourists. But it was decided to show unwanted immigrants the harsh truth of life. A video paid for by Canberra spread throughout the Pacific region, showing snakes, poisonous insects, crocodiles and sharks effectively reducing the population of the Green Continent.
The Australian experience of intimidation was picked up and creatively reworked by the most prosperous country of the Old World – Norway. Two years ago, the local government ministry responsible for receiving and accommodating refugees built sets into which television crews from Russia, Ukraine and the Balkan countries were sent, from where the largest flow of unwanted immigrants comes to Norway. Two 'Potemkin villages' were created to horrify foreigners and put them to flight. In late autumn, film crews from 'dangerous countries' were taken to two temporary tent camps, whose inhabitants shivered under thin blankets. At the same time, they huddled under one canopy with black people of rather criminal appearance and received for lunch monotonous food consisting of fish meatballs and powdered mashed potatoes. The 'horror movie' shown on national channels of the countries involved in the intimidation campaign worked. The municipal ministry announced that the number of refugees in Norway had sharply decreased.
And now the Netherlands have followed the beaten track. The government of this tidy state could not rely on terrible nature like Australia, and there were no tent camps behind barbed wire as in Norway. Therefore, they decided to frighten potential immigrants – mainly from Muslim countries – by showing the unbridled Dutch way of life.
Thus was created the 'most disgusting' documentary film in the history of the Dutch government's PR campaigns abroad. Viewers see harlots exposing bare breasts in public places, they are disgusted by the sight of homosexuals kissing passionately, and if this does not stop those wishing to move to a new Sodom and Gomorrah, they are introduced to the manifestation of God's wrath in the form of terrible floods that are about to wipe this den of debauchery off the face of the earth. According to the Dutch Minister for Integration Rita Verdonk, the film reflects the realities of Dutch life and it is simply necessary to show it to everyone who wants to settle in this country.
The Dutch immigration legislation was tightened after a Moroccan extremist stabbed to death on the street documentary filmmaker Theo van Gogh in November 2004, who had dared to make a critical film about Islam. This event gave impetus to debates about the risk of a liberal country turning into a bastion of fundamentalism, since immigrants multiply intensively and impose their ideas about life and moral values on society.
Getting into the Netherlands is now extremely difficult for refugees, but the number of unwanted foreigners is increasing due to family reunification. Spouses, children, and elderly parents come to foreigners who already have a residence permit in the Netherlands. It is they who should be stopped by the 'Sodom' video. A future settler must now pass a 'loyalty test', during which they must answer such provocative questions for Muslims as their attitude toward homosexuality, female circumcision, and premarital sexual relations of girls. Then a video is shown that strikes at the most sensitive Islamic nerves. Only real 'Stirlitzes' pass through the screening sieve, capable of hiding their true feelings about the mores of the country accepting them.