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Originally Posted by Deckard
One thing that occurred to me is how increasingly these days the line between fact and fiction is less clear cut than it used to be - something that's really been highlighted with the way 9/11 is presented.
Personally I'm more uneasy about the emotionalising (dare I say sentimentalising) of 9/11 in factual output like documentaries and news reports than I am about it in a film that sets out with the honest upfront aim of appealing to the emotions.
News reports don't need to be dressed up, they shouldn't require mood music, soft focus, reporters trying to mimic movie voiceover artists... they just need to tell us the facts in as objective a way as possible. The huge influx of "human interest" into news and the emotionalising of every issue is, to me, far more unsavoury than the idea of making a film based on absolutely anything.
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Bang on post. Human interest trends in news make me angry. You should see some of the "newspapers" we have here...but then you probably have them everywhere. And people prefer them.
*infinite sighs*