View from Inside
From the interview “100 Questions for Roland Joffe” by Zenit.org
“The movie world is a different thing. The job of the movie world is not to say: ‘This is a perfect historical reconstruction’. It’s to say: ‘This is what it felt like’. I remember, in The Killing Fields, hearing an interview that Jon Swain gave, where somebody said: ‘When you were captured, what happened?’ So, he gave a description, and the journalist said: ‘But, that’s not how the film describes it!’ And Jon Swain said: ‘Ah, it’s not. It’s true, in a sense, that what the film showed is not, exactly, what happened. But, I’ll tell you this: more importantly, it’s what it felt like.’ And, that’s the job of a movie: to connect feeling to an event. So, obviously, what I have to do – in the way we assemble images and make everything work – is to get inside.”
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