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In Reply to: "...if enough veils are lifted to the truth." posted by clarkjohnsen on March 29, 2003 at 08:45:21:

Even before "Birth of a Nation" and "Battleship Potempkin" filmmakers have given "their" version of events. Dickens wrote about the plight of the urban poor in serialised form; pure fiction, but so popular that he often modified the ending of novels based on conversations he overheard in pubs of speculation of the fates of his various characters; his writing influenced the creation of the social security and welfare system in the UK (for better or worse).
While I have not seen the film in question, I doubt it oversteps the mark any more or less than a hundred before it.
If it draws attention to genuine issues, all power to it.
I was recently discussing with a Scots friend how films like Braveheart and the "we can't even colonised by a decent culture" monologue in Trainspotting influenced Scotlands move to independence
It makes you wonder about the power of the film medium and if it is indeed ever used responsibly or apolitically; I would suggest almost never....
Eric

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an argument as older than the medium itself...