“The role of art in our society is not to reenact history but to offer an interpretation of human experience as seen through the eyes of the artist. The philosopher Aristotle says it best: ‘The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance.'”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lewis-selma-movie-20150119-story.html
“The question of historical accuracy in movies based on real life, as so many are, has been debated for years. But it has come to a boil in connection with the highly acclaimed film Selma.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/19/selma-historical-truth-in-movies/21991249/
“But with the G.M.O. bill, he often despaired of assembling the information he needed to definitively decide. Every time he answered one question, it seemed, new ones arose. Popular opinion masqueraded convincingly as science, and the science itself was hard to grasp. People who spoke as experts lacked credentials, and G.M.O. critics discounted those with credentials as being pawns of biotechnology companies.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/us/on-hawaii-a-lonely-quest-for-facts-about-gmos.html
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