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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Are you suggesting that viewers are so naive that they cannot tell fact from fiction? Perhaps you are right. This turkish film will go and make more suicide bombers. I know after I saw Syriana I wanted to punch oil executives in the face.
Do we know if the stories they are telling are even in part true? If they are, why shouldn't they tell these stories. Isn't that the job of a storyteller? These films are not govenment propaganda anymore than True Lies, the latest James Bond film, Black Hawk Down, etc.
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First, I'd like to correct an adjective used above. I don't believe naivity has anything to do with it. I fear it is blatant ignorance. Yes, many viewers probbaly cannot tell fact from fiction, believing each to be the other in some instances.
Take a look at a subject such as the Rape of Nanking. Many young Japanese (say... 16-26) probably still either don't KNOW about this atrocity, or have been led to believe it is false. I know from experience that at least some Japanese college students still don't believe it to be the truth. Even in a society with free press and expression, do you think the public, or even the military itself is told about everything that we do or don't do in Iraq and Afghanistan? I *KNOW* that the military keeps things from the public. They keep things from other branches. In the name of security, they keep things from even each other within a given platoon or even squad. I assure you that Americans have commited atrocities in Iraq. I don't believe that America has a desire to DO so... but it does not prevent it from happening. Do you think Abu Graib was an isolated incident? You think those few were the only prisoners abused? Do you honestly feel those were the WORST abuses?
So what is in part true, and in part false, can never really be determined with 100% accuracy. Americans can get up in arms about something like this movie... but myself, even as a soldier, cannot move myself to feel they are doing something truly wrong in making such a movie. In fact, I fight for people in this country to have those rights, how can I try to say that people in other countries having the same right is bad?