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It is right that true story life of criminals or villain be shown in a movie?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Two Answers:

    1. Not as fiction, no. Fiction is to be about someone who during the film's timespan tries to do the moral-ethical rights thing and succeeds--whether he wins the day or not.

    Clint Eastwood in Absolute Power is an example--career criminal--but he does the right thing at every point after his robbery is interrupted.

    2. Not as Non-fiction no. What's the point? You can always have a criminal as a character, true life or not, but what's the point? lessons to potential imitators? What's the value for a normative in watching such things? A book can dwell on the wrongness of the person's acts, and keep context. No way in which a film for me can do that.

    Thanks for asking

    Source(s): Ayn Rand Art and Moral Treason, essay in The Objectivist Epistemology
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