Originally posted by defythetyrants
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by defythetyrants
How do you feel about World War Two, or Vietnam, being used as a source for books and movies? Or how about Titanic? Or even the siege of Atlanta in Gone With the Wind? Genuinely interested.
i have already gone over this numerous times within this thread.
Apologies, I missed your answer.
I disagree with it though. There's obviously an issue of sensitivity when a tragedy is recent, but can you really be offended when someone makes a film about the battle of Thermopylae for example? The great great grandchildren of the people involved in that died before jesus was born.
Also I think that films - indeed all kinds of narrative - serve sometimes to examine and discuss tragic events, to bring new light to them and to allow us to reach some form of closure. The good ones, anyway.
