Russell Brand: Messiah Complex
Recorded live at Hammersmith Apollo, Russell questions that the worthiness of leaders and heroes. ‘Messiah Complex’ is really a disease where sufferers believe that they may possibly be the messiah. Can Jesus possess it? Think about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? These men have shaped our own lives and determined how we think. Their graphics have been utilised to represent thoughts which usually don’t link with them whatsoever. Can Gandhi become Apple? Can Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Can Jesus become Christianity? He concludes it’s a heap of crap and motivates the viewer to quit voting, blow off advertisements, turn to the transcendent within others and themselves…and kick some bins on the way home. Plus there’s sex. Demonstrably.
