I like the Heideggerean notion of the happening of truth in works of art. On this view there are many "truths", as many as the number of different lights things can convincingly be seen in (it is, e.g., hard to depict Hitler as open minded). The artist chooses to represent his subject matter in a certain light (e.g. Spielberg showing the Israeli targeted assassins in a largely positive light in "Munich"), and is sometimes inclined to make truth claims about his slant on things (as Spielberg did in defending his film). But it strikes me that this is only his perspective on those events, and one of several potentially valid ones at that..
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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