Meget interessant. Viser vigtigheden af konteksten. So I was talking about “the future of context” panel with a daughter who has just been grading college papers for a class entitled “Collaboration to Resistance: Europe in WWII.” In order to provide further context beyond the professor’s lectures, the class watched “The Sorrow and the Pity.” My daughter got two papers with the thesis that the French Resistance was basically a bourgeois phenomenon in reaction to the fact that the Germans took for themselves all the meat in France. Why such cockamamie conclusions? Because a provincial interviewed in the film, when asked why he joined the Resistance, said, “the Germans took our meat.” But of course we as adults know that he did not mean that literally. That it was a tough-guy and very Francaise way of shrugging aside something he did not really want to get into too deeply. The students, however, reacted with the literalism of the young. They did not have the context (part of which is age and experience) to evaluate within reasonable perameters the context, the firm. And lest you conclude that the students were merely stupid, let me add that this is Princeton and the teacher is the great Jan Gross.