But these films are just so insistent on the theme of upward growth that it starts to seem removed from the moment of real trauma, to become almost celebratory or nationalistic.

There's a fine line between the politics of memory and those of victimhood. I think, though, that the ideology you describe here jives with what would have been the education about the wartime of the people making the movies--that is, the conjunction between former suffering and current prosperity may have seemed natural.


Yeah SGMS! Are you coming back next year?