
Are period dramas damaging history?
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Is It Right to Dramatize That for People to Watch?
There is a moment where I felt, oh God, they are getting very close to home. It was absolutely horrific to see those young boys have to do that publicly on a public stage. A cut off line somewhere, somewhere prior to the events of 1997 would most definitely have been morally the correct thing to do. We don't already know all that hasn't been done before. And it's not, you know, the Diana issue, for example, is never going to go away. She has consistently popped up in films and documentaries. The duty of care has to come first to the living descendants of the subjects we're talking about.
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