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terça-feira, 13 de outubro de 2009

Deleting History

Other day i was watching a movie - Valkyrie -, that plays (represents) a period of our history, the nazism, and how a group of germen officers, in the core of the government, on 1944, had prepared a sabotage plan to do Hittler to fall. The more interesting thing, i guess, is the fact of a movie of the Hollywood Industry to come into the Germany and to have no barrier to tell his history, and as i see yet, it was pleasant for germen because it din´t shock the people neither the history.
But i stay thinking to myself so, and there´s not possible to avoit the comparition, in a reference to the story of a George Orwell book - 1984 -, where he said the one of the best way to control the present time is to erase the past, whence, in the wars, the only story that matters is that one of the winners, so, if you want to figure out the entire story of the world try to understand the story of the losers.
In the book, all fact that have no interest to government are eresad from history and all records are deleted and all the little and big stories are replaced for another one more useful to government, cleary or in a underground way.
Now, imagine an Industry (Hollywood) coming into a country (Germany), getting credit (good movie), telling your history (good movie) and after admited as a good one (people thinks this), so... it can change the real facts indeed, until the people come the believe that it was the real story actually.

Good book: 1984, George Orwell
Movie alike: V of Revange
Not Bad Movie: Valkirie
Bad Movie: 1984 (like the book): it don´t plays the psicology of the personagens neither the ideal of stablishced government.

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