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Probably the most difficult thing for me to do as the director was to pick the most salient parts of Iby's complex story and create a simplified narrative.
This simplified narrative tends to cast Serbia as aggressors, Bosnian Muslims as victims, Nato as rescuing heroes and Croatia as bemused onlookers.
It is a convenient, simplified narrative, but it serves no real security purpose, and frequently results in the mistreatment of innocent people.
The voice he gives to the complexities of contemporary Islam remind us never to fall for the simplified narrative, especially one that forces you to look at a quarter of the world's population through a singular lens.
In this essay, I can only provide the simplified narrative described above, and point out that it is only an outline.
Attempts at self-reflection and self-criticism end up taking place within the very finite box of a simplified narrative.
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And they must also make themselves heard in the glut of worthy causes, all with a chorus of earnest celebrities crying "Urgent!" To do so, the Burma campaign has decided to use some of the same brand-building strategies — simplified narratives, clear-cut imagery and, of course, the most carefully selected celebrities — used by other successful aid agencies, or even consumer-goods marketers.
David Blight, a professor at Yale who was briefly an adviser on the film, defended it, cautiously, as delivering a useful public lesson on the 13th Amendment, even if it ended up reinforcing a simplified heroic narrative of Lincoln.
Obama bought into this simplified story.
Simplified, very simplified.
It's this over-simplified, euro-centric narrative, they say, that leaves history open to exploitation by right-wing extremists and Islamists alike.
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