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  1. Dave Hahn

    _Birth of a Nation_: cinema's problem child?

    Patrick, From my very first post I was trying to make an analogy between the two. I was trying to point out that the medical and scientific communities did not use the information for the Nazi experiments for moral reasons, ergo, we should not look on BOAN as a great movie for the same moral...
  2. Dave Hahn

    _Birth of a Nation_: cinema's problem child?

    Seth and Kenneth, I understand your argument and agree with it, to a point. Your discussion of the plot elements and themes of BOAN, Frank Capra's Why We Fight series, Saving Private Ryan, and Unforgiven are indeed an interesting academic discussion. I don't think that's what Jack was asking...
  3. Dave Hahn

    _Birth of a Nation_: cinema's problem child?

    This is a good, healthy discussion on an important matter. I guess I should clarify some of my points. Jarod M wrote: I agree 100%. This is the vast problem with this movie, it portrays the KKK "as upstanding and heroic" and not as ignorant murdering bastards. I don't believe in censorship...
  4. Dave Hahn

    _Birth of a Nation_: cinema's problem child?

    Doctors, their patients, and medical science in general would all be better off if the results of the research from the medical experiments conducted by Nazi Doctors and scientists on unwilling patients in death camps had been allowed. None of that information has ever been used, by anyone...
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