Behind the tragedy: international filmmakers revisit the Bali Bombing in a new co-production feature.(feature film)

Asia Image, March, 2007 by Chan, Danny

The October 2002 Bali Bombing was much more devastating than just the carnage and physical wreckage that it wrought. While the September 11 attacks may have united Americans, by willing their collective resolve against a common and vilified enemy--terrorism--the Bali catastrophe nearly had the effect of polarizing the world into ideological extremes. Not only did the tragic event strike in the wake of September 11--when emotions were still raw and nervy--the swirl of aftermath events and commentary that followed the bombing did not help with escalating tension.

Four years on, and just when the wounds are scarcely about to heal, along comes Bali--Paradise Lost, a feature film that revisits one of mankind's darkest days in recent memory.

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