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Hitler, terrorism, Port Arthur: Should some subjects be off limits? – Sydney Morning Herald
The court of public opinion has decreed a film about the Port Arthur shooter should not be made. But is that judgement right?
French says that at the last talk she gave on the subject, a 10-year-old asked her “who is Hitler?”. It was a salutary moment. “We think the world will not forget, but we do.”
So perhaps some temporal distance is a significant factor; the closer we are in time to an event, the more raw it is; the further away we are, the more licence and perhaps need there is to breathe new life into it.
“Something that happened late last year is off limits,” says Peter FitzSimons, who has written about a range…
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