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Flicks, Team
First things first, Rescue Dawn is INSPIRED by actual events. This means that the film is not a verbatim retelling of historical events, but instead a fictionalized narrative with alterations for dramatic effect. I point this out so early because this film has received a critical backlash due to perceived deviations from the truth, as if artistic license somehow became taboo in the realm of movie making. As this is director Werner Herzog’s adaptation of his 1997 character driven documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly, subjectivity was always going to enter into the equation.
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