History?

Posted by Bruce - in arts and entertainment, Blog, Philosophy - No Comments

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Last night I skipped my viewing of “Shark Tank” to watch “Son’s Of Liberty” a historic adaption of the time before and during the revolutionary war and as I watched I wondered was this truly historic?  I’m sure the language was modernized for the television viewer and I was happy to hear that rather then “thee and thou” but how about the content? How do we truly know in such precise detail what occurred and how it was said? We can assume from the historic record through diaries of historic figures, papers of the time etc, but then we must assume the writer had no bias.  We can put together a few lines and even scenes that fill in the space between the actual event but then are we creating fiction itself?  These thoughts came to my mind as I started reading “American Sniper” after seeing the film.  I realized that just like “Unbroken” key pieces are still missing and this is from fairly modern history how can we therefore dwell deeper in history. “American Sniper” was a great film and I’m sure if it included all the bits and pieces I might think were key in the book it would not have been as entertaining or even great as a film.  So if you are in search of the truth then enjoy the television or film adaption of it but read the historical record to be educated on it.

 

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