ABC's lying docu-drama

[velvetpage]

A good perspective on why I refuse to watch this, or any other "drama" about 9-11:

http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/206303.html

Comments

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That was interesting.

By the way, you've linked her journal, rather than the entry. The actual link should be http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/206303.html

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Oops. Thanks - I'll fix that.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Why should you in the first place? The only reason anyone makes a fuss about 9/11 is that they want Americans to vote a certain way in American elections and support a certain type of American policy. Everyone else already seems to have figured out how to handle it emotionally.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

This kind of thing, when done well, does serve a societal purpose. I do watch similar show about WWII, for example. I know enough about that topic to usually figure out how close to the mark they are in terms of accuracy, and I watch it to remind myself of the history I know and the connections it has to me. I watch a documentary about the taking of Singapore by the Japanese and remind myself of how fortunate my grandfather was to have been transferred back to England a few months before - and how many of his mates were not so fortunate. We need such stories as a part of our collective historical consciousness, in an accessible media. Someday, I'll tell my daughters about their great-grandfather's war experiences, and it will help to have such works available. For our family, it was real.

I don't need to be lied to about it or entertained ny it, though, and that's what the 9/11 shows set out to do at the moment. In ten years, it will be time to tell these stories, truthfully, so that our children can take part in what was, to us, very real.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

Watch the Terence McKenna documentary on CBC instead:

http://www.cbc.ca/television/

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'll be out this evening, celebrating life - specifically, my grandmother's eightieth birthday. And tomorrow, I have Elizabeth's first ballet class and the first parents' meeting at her co-op preschool. So I'm not watching any of it, for which I am very grateful.

[wyldraven.livejournal.com]

You might want to see this (http://lasarina.livejournal.com/56323.html) also.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'll link to that post when she makes it.