The second great sin of the film is not violence, but denial. Simon represents the Western child who wants to forget the past. "The dead are dead," he yells. "Let them rot." But the film argues violently against this amnesia. The past is not even past; it is the radioactive core of the present. The Incendies 2010 film posits that burying history results in genetic and emotional deformity.

Mouawad, Wajdi. Incendies . Translated by Linda Gaboriau, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009.

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The second great sin of the film is not violence, but denial. Simon represents the Western child who wants to forget the past. "The dead are dead," he yells. "Let them rot." But the film argues violently against this amnesia. The past is not even past; it is the radioactive core of the present. The Incendies 2010 film posits that burying history results in genetic and emotional deformity.

Mouawad, Wajdi. Incendies . Translated by Linda Gaboriau, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009. Incendies 2010 Film