the of Vietnam was the first televised war of history Public opinion could not bear to see more images like that of the girl victim of napalm in the media.
It was taken by a prestigious Vietnamese photographer to represent the horror of the conflict, but also poses a real moral dilemma: if you can help the person you are photographing, if you have to intervene in the situation you are photographing…
These ethical dilemmas were tackled in the play ‘La piel en llamas’, which is now being adapted for the cinema and which asks whether media we contribute to making wars a spectacle.
The screenwriter of this feature film, Guillem Clua, who worked for many years as a journalist, says that while carrying out his profession he realized that “he was building fictions” with his journalistic chronicles.
Where is the limit when we talk about human lives?what happens to the victims afterwards?, how do they disappear and become just a statistic? These are the dilemmas posed by this story in which Óscar Jaenada gives life to a photojournalist awarded for a photo of a girl flying through the air after a bombing.
A film that takes us to another war, that of the Ukraine, and that invites us to reflect on how we are telling it.
Source: Lasexta
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