The Culture: Making a movie about the Port Arthur massacre
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Culture writer and director mamod fazal joins the show to talk about a new australian film, knit round. The film is about martin bryant, the perpetrator of the arthur massacred 25 years ago. It tracks his life in the lead up to that event, when he gunned down 35 people shortly after lunch on sunday. When the film was first announced, there was pretty swift backlash from politicians and film critics who e that the story was just too painful and tromatic to tell. Mamod: Why do we need a movie on this monster? Why does it serve any purpose at all? We'll hardly learn anything from it. And more
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