Scholar R.J. Raack is for “film as history” by arguing that the traditional written history is too narrow to focus on the complexity of it. Raack states that film is the most appropriate medium for because, “Only film can provide an adequate "empathetic reconstruction to convey how historical people witnessed, understood, and lived their lives." Only film can "recover all the past 's liveliness” (1176). Furthermore, he believes this because of film’s ability to juxtapose images and sound and the editing techniques to convey history. In contrast scholar Ian Jarvie believes that film is not a meaningful way to portray history due to the lack of information and discursive weakness because film, “[…] does not consist primarily of "a descriptive
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History as a closed, uncontested story is evident in The Night of The Shooting Stars, because it is told like a bed time story, which displays this magical realism. Throughout the film there is no protagonist, not many close ups, and the story is being told by the perspective of an eight year old girl. The history seems inaccurate which creates uncertainties because the event does not come from a single perspective. For example, the scene where the little girl is about to get killed by a solider and she closes her eyes then, they turn into accident roman fighters. This affects the viewer’s experience of history because it is dramatized and fantasized, the viewer knows that is not a realistic representation of the history. It make the viewer question what historical facts of the film were true or not. The film also demonstrates history as emotional, personal and dramatic because the history in the film is inaccurate, however it is emotionally accurate. For example, all throughout the film when the group of people are searching for the American soldiers the viewer can infer how terrified these people during that time period. The emotional and dramatic affect is successful in illustrating the terror people when through during that
History as a closed, uncontested story is evident in The Night of The Shooting Stars, because it is told like a bed time story, which displays this magical realism. Throughout the film there is no protagonist, not many close ups, and the story is being told by the perspective of an eight year old girl. The history seems inaccurate which creates uncertainties because the event does not come from a single perspective. For example, the scene where the little girl is about to get killed by a solider and she closes her eyes then, they turn into accident roman fighters. This affects the viewer’s experience of history because it is dramatized and fantasized, the viewer knows that is not a realistic representation of the history. It make the viewer question what historical facts of the film were true or not. The film also demonstrates history as emotional, personal and dramatic because the history in the film is inaccurate, however it is emotionally accurate. For example, all throughout the film when the group of people are searching for the American soldiers the viewer can infer how terrified these people during that time period. The emotional and dramatic affect is successful in illustrating the terror people when through during that