Cuurently, this is the ad that will cause me to put the sound on mute. Manulife Financial's ads are beige Nonentities, so politically correct and obviously pitched to be inoffensive it's painful. This guy is neither fish nor fowl - he wears a formal jacket with an informal shirt and uses these practiced hand-gestures like an old-fashioned demagogue. In the other version of the ad, two women, one white, one black (so correct) talk about how lovely the insurance is, in a way that no human would ever, ever talk about insurance. But subtly, they keep repeating: Get the insurance, WHILE you still can, BEFORE you get sick, BEFORE you die! Over and over and over…Yuck.
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