Piratis wrote:cypezokyli, the attempt for reconciliation is one thing, and Angastiniotis another. Do not confuse the two. His film is one sided propaganda. If he wanted to cover the pre 1974 period he should have covered all the events of that period and not to make this a totally one sided film.
His film is so one sided that it is used and published by the most nationalists Turks and TCs as an excuse for the crimes that they continue to commit against GCs. How does that help reconciliation?
A film to help reconciliation would be an objective film about all the events, all at at least about all the events of a period, without any bias.
thats where you go wrong piratis.
he didnot want to make sth "objective".
the purpose was to cover that part of history that it is unknown to the gcs.
and the reason is very simple : tell me which gc film / documentary you have seen up to now , that shows the killings done from our side. ONE. JUST ONE.
i dont see anyone of you complaining when in the national memorial days they show only one side of the story.
if you believe that there was nothing missing (i.e. our killlings) from what we show on tv, i would beg you to direct me to that film. bc , from our nice channels , up to now i saw documentaries about eoka , the invasion the missing , BUT NEVER about the killings of eoka , the tc missing, our achievements in 1963/4 , 67 , etc. and i never saw anyone of you openning a thread complaining that what they show to us is one sided propaganda. and the reason ? bc we are comfortable with the part of the propaganda we learned. bc we never learned to accept our mistakes.
his film is not objective , but adds the piece that was missing from our created idea of reality. what is the point of making another film that will show the turkish attrocities , when there are already so many out there ? you should ask yourself , what part of our history IS MISSING from what the channels show and if tony, managed to reduce our ignorance on exactly the part that was missing.
if yes, then he achieved his purpose (whose purpose is not what you think it should have been)
also , when the film is shown by reconcialiation comittees , it was never shown alone. NEVER. it was showed together with another film, usually a gc one (which is also not objective) in order to come closer to the picture.
why dont you and sotos complain about the second film that will be shown : "attila 74" ???
why dont you laugh about it ?
why dont you ask if the second film covers all the events ?
let me tell you why. because the second film tells us what we want to listen. it makes us feel good about ourselves and we can continue accusing the other.
and so long our shannels do not show the other side of the story , either from angastaniotis films , or any other (if there is any ) i would never stop questioning our level of democracy.