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Turning watching into seeing and feeling
One of the characteristics of great art is its capacity to change and charge the focus of our attention, to turn watching into seeing and feeling.
Everyone will have their personal library of those heart-stopping, life-changing moments of recognition or realisation, a moment in a film or a picture or a song after which nothing is quite the same.
Television, still just about an experience that is shared simultaneously and widely, can magnify our personal epiphany into a collective one.
Art’s responsibility towards truth
Other stories need to be told, though, and one is about the necessary independence of art from the pretence of objectivity, and how to define art’s responsibility towards truth.
The hugely successful drama series ‘The Crown’ chose the high wire act of depicting real, living and famous individuals in dramatic form.
It was not documentary, yet at the time the concern was raised that fiction might become more believed than fact. Content warnings were discussed.
The uncomfortable elision of reality and imagination was in sharp focus but remained unresolved. (...)».
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