Re: Fact and Fiction, Ancient and Modern
- From: Martin Edwards <big_mart_98@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:16:16 +0100
Cormac wrote:
"Picnic on Hanging Rock" is a novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay.
It was filmed in 1975. The theme is about some schoolgirls and their
teacher who wen missing at a picnic resort in 1900.
Hanging Rock is real, the rest is fiction. Yet it is widely believed
that the events are true. Tourism thrived at Hanging Rock.
When fact and fiction are easly confused today, how can we make a
judgement about events that allegedly happened almost 2,000 years ago?
Cormac.
Brian de Palma's The Untouchables is based on real persons and some real background facts. It is, however, also fiction. In fact much is counterfactual, including the assumption that they were working with the police. They were set up precisely because the police were bent. If you are starting an early Christmas meditation, I for one, regard the whole lot as mythology.
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