Prager on the importance of “The Stoning of Soraya M”
See this film (or stop complaining about Hollywood)
By Dennis Prager
jewishworldreview.com | With the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood.
In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil, power and tobacco executives on film. Or producing yet another movie on the evils of the Iraq War. But if courage means doing what is unpopular — especially among one’s peers — I can recall precious few politically incorrect films made in the last decade (“The Dark Knight” comes to mind as a possible exception).
How many politically incorrect movies has Hollywood made in the last generation? How many films, for instance, have depicted communist evil? Given that Communism murdered more than 100 million innocents — in peacetime! — and enslaved about 1 billion more, one would think that Hollywood would have made a fair number of movies depicting the horrors of communism. But aside from “Dr. “Dr. Zhivago” and “The Killing