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Thread #107204 Message #2221639
Posted By: Sandy Mc Lean
23-Dec-07 - 09:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: One Dead Indian - CTV movie
Subject: RE: BS: One Dead Indian - CTV movie
The title of the movie and the book on which it was based, "One Dead Indian", is rather stark and may not seem very politically correct, but I think that the author, Peter Edwards, could not have chosen better. He tells the story in a stark no nonsense, no excuse, style and the title is only the hammer to start with. Attention is drawn to the book and to the story that it tells about Dudley George's "public murder" , and that would seem how he would want it to be. I appreciate one of the bots trying to put the title in softer context by adding "CTV movie", but this is not just a movie or a book, but a story that would ask each of us to look into our souls. Sometimes in order to do that we must be hit with the hammer. It is easy enough for us to blame the OPP, a red-necked premier and an incompetent government but the shame is that they represented "The People". Sadly "The People" can most easily be found by looking in a mirror. Sandy