A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in … - Helen Mirren

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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Helen Mirren

A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as propaganda is a very valuable tool. It can also demonize, which is the dangerous side of a war film as propaganda. But there are war films that are not propaganda. It's just saying 'This is what it's like. ' For 99 percent of us we don't know what it's like. We have no idea. So to reveal that to the audience is powerful.

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