My script has flashbacks about The Troubles, from 1999 to 2002. I was wondering if this would drag the The Troubles out, since there have been lots of movies and books about this period in Northern Ireland's history?
What I mean is I am just not sure if The Troubles part in my script would be upsetting for some people who actually lived through it, since part of it will be based on a handful of real life occurrences that took place in the country.
It may well upset, anger, infuriate, insult, offend, and a host of other things that we normally avoid in our day to day lives. This should not be a concern in whether you do or do not write about a subject. Countless stories, movies, and plays have been written, published, aired, and performed about the Holocaust. I cannot imagine a subject more provocative of painful memory to those who still live and who did live through that, and yet still. If we never wrote things for fear that we might upset, what a bland pap literature would indeed be.
*shrugs* I used to be offended by American glorification of the IRA (the set off bombs in my hometown, and have nearly killed myself and members of my family on several occasions). You get over it. I'd take Wrey's advice. Don't worry about it.
Thanks Banzai. And I'm focusing more on the "shoot-to-kill" policy that related to the UVF and was taken up by the British Army, RUC and even the PIRA.
No it's not Zeem. Just to show how The Troubles extended to the smallest towns in Northern Ireland, i.e. Ballynewry.
"If none of us had ever read a dangerous book or had friends others didn't like or supported unpopular causes, then we'd all be the kind of people (Senator Joe) McCarthy likes." - Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night and Good Luck"
