The Guardian - Film brings fake history to screen
This article sparked quite a bit of controversy in TOK teacher groups with arguments centering on supporting the artistic license to revise or adapt historical events for artistic purposes, and others criticizing the blatant revision of historical fact and presenting an alternate version of events than what has already been documented in detail.
Either way, the piece is critical of a film that essentially retells the partition during India's liberation from British rule, basing part of the condemnation on the fact that many still have living memory of what actually happened and therefore oppose the point of view the director has taken, and highlighting that the "sin" of the film is that it takes "breathtaking liberty with the historical record;" diminishing it to "fake history."
To what extent are artists or artistic representations obliged to accurately depict historical fact?
How might a misrepresentation of history become dangerous, or in this instance, a "sin," in terms of its impact on personal or shared knowledge?
Why is the idea of revisionist history such a controversial topic? If the Arts are supposed to represent versions of the world, do we not simply know not to take pieces of art literally?
Viceroy's House Criticism
Either way, the piece is critical of a film that essentially retells the partition during India's liberation from British rule, basing part of the condemnation on the fact that many still have living memory of what actually happened and therefore oppose the point of view the director has taken, and highlighting that the "sin" of the film is that it takes "breathtaking liberty with the historical record;" diminishing it to "fake history."
To what extent are artists or artistic representations obliged to accurately depict historical fact?
How might a misrepresentation of history become dangerous, or in this instance, a "sin," in terms of its impact on personal or shared knowledge?
Why is the idea of revisionist history such a controversial topic? If the Arts are supposed to represent versions of the world, do we not simply know not to take pieces of art literally?
Viceroy's House Criticism
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