Having just seen the excellent musical Come From Away<\/i>, I have very complex feelings. It is essentially an upbeat story about the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9\/11.<\/p>\n
But it doesn’t approach its subject directly. Rather than showing the event itself, it talks about an epi-event which involved many positive and life-affirming outcomes, and essentially demonstrated the indestructibility of the human spirit.<\/p>\n
In this way, it reminded me a lot of Schindler’s List<\/i>. That movie is essentially an upbeat story about the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
But it doesn’t approach its subject directly. Rather than showing the event itself, it talks about an epi-event which involved many positive and life-affirming outcomes, and essentially demonstrated the indestructibility of the human spirit.<\/p>\n
I wonder how many other works of art which build upon real life experiences of horror take the same approach. And I wonder whether the cost of blurring of the lens is worth the benefit that such a work will reach many more people than would a more direct and unflinching look into the abyss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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