This adorable anti-drink driving advertisement from New Zealand takes a very different approach to Australia’s “you’re a bloody idiot” TAC commercials.
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“bro, Monique says you’re dumb”
– if he says something
compared to the highly unrealistic scenes in the Australian ads of girls mocking the guys speeding in a fast car….
If thats the way it worked, they wouldn’t need anti-speeding ads, would they?
This is a way better approach, and its funny:
“i’ve been internalizing a really complicated situation in my head” – or maybe its just the accent
GHOST CHUPS
Yeah not bad. Don’t think we’ll see a local version with indig actors any time soon though. Can you imagine the uproar?
It makes the point well – but almost needs subtitles once across the Tasman.
Yep, well I will avoid the usual platitudes about the Kiwis – but this is a GREAT ad, designed to make people think, not “shock-and-awe” tactics that are the fodder of the TAC, and our constabulary …