What’s currently exciting features writers: The Oscar winner “20 Days in Mariupol” about the Ukrainian war, Christo’s “Wrapped Leica” and John Smith’s musical processing of strokes of fate.
Shocking 91 minutes of film: “20 Days in Mariupol”
The sense and nonsense of trigger warnings, which are given before books, podcasts, films and plays to point out potentially traumatizing content, has been widely discussed in recent months, often in a slightly mocking tone. When ARD now prefaces a documentary film that has just won an Oscar with these words: “+++ NOTE: THE FILM PROVIDES SHOCKING INSIGHTS INTO THE SUFFERING OF THE BEIGED CIVIL POPULATION, WHICH MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS. +++” – then in this In this case, only one thing is questionable: Why “some”? Which “viewers” should the 91 minutes that the Ukrainian war photographer Mstyslav Chernov cut together from his material not have a disturbing effect on?