Those interested in this might like this doc plying tonight in bangor. The makers also have discussed the ethics involved with transparency during their filmmaking
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The Promise & Perils of Transparency is organized by Desiree Butterfield of The University of Maine's Fogler Library.
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jonippolito 9:23 pm on November 12, 2010 Permalink
Interesting comparison! It seems odd to me that this movie is touted as uniting people who never talk about the war. Virginia Woolf famously refused to write about war so as not to validate it with more attention than it already received. But I wonder if valuing transparency wouldn’t suggest it would be better if the movie catalyzed more discussion about our wars in the Middle East…
jonippolito 9:33 pm on November 12, 2010 Permalink
Aron replied to this question by claiming that someone looking for that could always find another documentary that took a strong political stance on the war. He described how the rule of troop greeters is to leave politics at the door, so he tried to follow the same principle in the movie.