The two Hitler-assassination plots cancel each other out dramatically and the director's moderate reserves of narrative interest are exhausted way before the end.
And they fear that Turkey may be too important to Western leaders' ambitions for the region to let the facts of what's happening interfere with the compelling moderate-Muslim-country narrative those leaders promote.
Today, governments are pushing a moderate understanding of the Malcolm X narrative as part of their counter-radicalization efforts.
Although Israel and Hamas view each other as mortal enemies, this war has forced them once again to recognize that neither can destroy the other, and they must now begin to moderate their religious or ideological narratives, necessitated by the changing circumstances.
They are helping former cult recruiters, like Maajid Nawaz, to actively challenge the Islamist "narrative" and promote a moderate Islam vision of peace, love and goodness.
In the Dominican Republic, ultra-nationalist, bigoted power brokers exert undue pressure on moderate politicians, strengthening a widely accepted narrative that many Dominicans of Haitian ancestry are Haitian and not Dominican.
I hope that moderate leaders take heed and produce a narrative, backed by policies, that is inspiring.
American media outlets, including CNN, the Associated Press and the Washington Post, among others, have consistently propagated the fictional narrative that the United States is supporting "moderate opposition forces" on the battlefield and in the peace talks in Geneva.
Meanwhile voters who occupy the middle ground get little credit for their unpredictability.This may be because moderates do not sit comfortably in the political narrative of biological determinists like Mr Tuschman.
Where is the political narrative strategy of the Democratic Party, or of moderate Republicans?
