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Originally posted by The_Dude
it's just a movie. a movie cannot re-write what somebody did in real life and they dont follow the events in real life very much.
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Perception is reality. It always amazes me how many people know nothing of politics (yet still vote). You could argue that such a movie could convince someone like this on how 'evil' Reagan was. I've known 18 year olds to not know who the last president was (this was a year ago). I'm not making this up. One of the girls I knew to be pretty smart, and I asked her how she passed her constitution test. She told me they gave her the questions with the answers before the test (this is in Chicago).
So yes I worry about something like this movie inflecting people who lack any knowledge to base the validity of the film on, or have any reason to question the validity.
Still I wonder if negative reaction to such things would be even greater. Has the information age gotten to a point where pulling the wool over someone’s eyes only gets you caught?