If they were serious about treating the topic with dignity we wouldn't see Cage or other headliners.
Documentaries are fine. I'll pass on this exploitation. I fail to see any useful purpose beyond studio profit, and I sure as hell don't want my memories of what happened clouded by fantasy.
The thought of monday morning water-cooler chats over "the weekend movie" is a little nauseating.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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