Somehow the film, after showing at festivals in the autumn of 2016, manages to reach UK cinemas in the early days of the post-truth presidency; I saw it within a week of the Holocaust Memorial Day from which the White House had managed to exclude the Jews. Did someone know it would be needed right now?
I saw Denial in the U.S. in early October when it had its brief Oscar-contending theatrical release and it was painfully relevant already. Spall's Irving did not read to me as implausibly grotesque because I was seeing the same self-satisfied warping of reality in the campaign behavior of the man who is now president of my country and the team that enabled and encouraged him, some of whom are now the same people who produced that "de-Judaized" (speaking of Deborah Lipstadt) Holocaust statement—I understand that it doesn't represent the real David Irving, but I do think it represents a real form of racist/fascist display. The Trump administration is made of cartoon villains, but they're real.
I was a student at Brandeis when the case was decided. It was a big deal. I went to see the film hoping it would do a good job with the facts; I thought it did.
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I saw Denial in the U.S. in early October when it had its brief Oscar-contending theatrical release and it was painfully relevant already. Spall's Irving did not read to me as implausibly grotesque because I was seeing the same self-satisfied warping of reality in the campaign behavior of the man who is now president of my country and the team that enabled and encouraged him, some of whom are now the same people who produced that "de-Judaized" (speaking of Deborah Lipstadt) Holocaust statement—I understand that it doesn't represent the real David Irving, but I do think it represents a real form of racist/fascist display. The Trump administration is made of cartoon villains, but they're real.
I was a student at Brandeis when the case was decided. It was a big deal. I went to see the film hoping it would do a good job with the facts; I thought it did.