Review: "Nanking"
By Susan Gerhard
Images of grisly murders and mass graves, war-orphaned children, and refugees in rags, should, it seems, be difficult for people of conscience to turn away from. Yet, the truth is people of conscience do it every day. From Rwanda to Sudan to Iraq, it’s been made painfully clear that there’s no ceiling to atrocities that can be committed in the name of war, and no limit to what audiences will freely ignore. When it comes to atrocities long past, finding a way into the hearts of a media-numbed, disempowered populace an ocean away from the incidents has to be particularly challenging.
topics: documentary, reviews
12.11.2007