Yes. but the purpose of La vita e bella was not the true representation of
truth, but its embodiment through the artistic form by way of a picture. It
was not to chronicle events, but to "represent" them (see Aristotle's
"Poetics"), using the Holocaust as the background theme.
Does this deface the crimes against humanity that had been committed? If
that's true, then any movie that deals with a historical war defaces the
crimes against humanity that had been committed and should be banned from
the onset. If we want dialogue, however, on these issues, we better have
these films produced in greater numbers so that they exact their
metalinguistic function and provide us with alternate ways of conceiving the
reality of the Holocaust or events of similar magnitude, such as the
Armenian genocide by the Turks or the famine in Somalia.
> I suggest for a more informed discussion on Holocaust
> a short reading list:> Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto,
> The Journal of Emmanuel Ringleblum.
That's not the point.
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