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I don't agree that this shouldn't be taken seriously - I think TV and cinema are key tools for building national narratives, and I'd be surprised if viewers don't assume the film is accurate history.
Well that's partly due to Clooney's box-office appeal, which he uses to try to make/be in films he really wants to make - as with Good Night and Good Luck.
For anyone who hasn't seen it - a number of people complain that it is too complicated - just don't try to understand everything as you watch, some things you've just seen become clear some time later in the film. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
I am not at all sure that audiences differentiate between fictional or factual-related, ror even comedy and drama. An (old) movie such as Chariots of Fire is just as likely imo to change or reinforce attitudes to the 'national narrative' as anything else.
But I was speaking only for myself in saying I was not going to be looking for relevant insight to the more serious debates. There has been however a drip drip of personal cumulative cynicism from movies such as 'Wag the Dog'. You can't be me, I'm taken
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