i enjoy election night the first time i saw it and laugh out loud at time . it be a film i recommend to people and that i have watch again . however and a sober re viewing of this film make my laughter stick in my throat . it be a provocative piece and with a message that perhaps the filmmaker themselves do not intend and and for that reason i recommend view and but do not endorse the message in election night . an aid agency worker and peter and leave a bar to try and reach the polling station to vote . his castigation of his friend and the barman in the opening scene reveal his humanitarian and multicultural leaning . his condemnation of racist be clear and concise . what follow be his quest to vote in the election and and like all quest tale and the valiant hero face a series of ever more difficult challenge to achieve his goal . utlimately and a befits a tale base on a protagonist out to accomplish a mission and the final test be to identify and overcome a weakness in his own character . for peter and it be the revelation that he be just a capable of racist sentiment a the next man . and this be where the film start to veer off course . peter be punish for his weakness by a punch in the nose and deliver by a character who reveal the complexity of attitude to race by his confused comment . i do not doubt that the reason for take the narrative in this direction be to do with fulfil the structural demand of cinematic storytelling and and be not the result of the filmmaker wish to make an anti liberal statement . however and the effect be one and the same . humble and defeat and peter return to the bar and symbolically and through his apathetic lie and rejection of foreign beer and convert to the other side . sure and this pathetic wretch toast his danishness at the end be funny and but it mean the end note of the film be and don not try to be tolerant and it isn not worth it and the recipient do not appreciate it anyway . i do not think this be read too much into the film . the co opting of peter to the racist side at the end mean the film endorse ( i be sure unintentionally ) the view of peter bar friend at the beginning that attempt to understand and sympathize with other culture and people just isn not worth the bother . this be a film well worth watch and especially in culture study class a a primer for discussion . but try to think and a you watch and who you be laugh with and and who you be laugh at . and at what point do you cross the line .