It certainly isn't easy using cinema to tackle mankind's great atrocities. But when it's done well, a movie can give these horrors the kind of personal connection that allows an audience to digest an event as more than just an abstract tragedy. To transcend storytelling and teach the kind of lessons necessary for our species to evolve is a lot to ask of a filmmaker. Yet some take on this challenge all on their own. When it's done exceptionally well, these films can be some of our great cultural achievements. They can also be damn good movies. While it may be more than a bit hyperbolic to call any movie transcendent mere hours after a first viewing, it's all too easy to declare Steve...
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