Controversial Virtual Reality Anne Frank Film Gets Go Ahead

A new virtual reality film reliving Anne Frank’s time in her attic during World War II is causing controversy over its decency.

The announcement was made this week that punters will be able to ‘visit’ the interior of the attic where Frank hid in terror from the Nazis during 1942, which won’t be to everyone’s taste, that’s for sure.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, viewers will be “immersed in the presence of Anne Frank" as well as other characters from the period. It’s easy to see how this could come across as hugely offensive, but the writer-director of ‘Anne’, Danny Abrahms, insists its in good taste and an essential part of history that needs to be shared.

“Anne Frank’s story has kept the memory of the Holocaust alive and promoted tolerance for generations,” says Abrahms. “We are deeply committed to sharing Anne’s experience using cutting-edge modes of storytelling so that her story can live on and reach as many young people in the world as possible.”

Apparently, it’ll offer audiences the opportunity to “feel like they are there”as viewers can freely move around the environment with photo-realistic visuals, yet there’s a danger the vr treatment could trivialise it.

To a related but lesser degree, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has a full 360-degree virtual reality museum tour for visitors who physically cannot access the attic due to disability or mobility, but the two seem very separate in both taste and purpose.

Ethically speaking, it doesn’t appear to be the most tasteful of subjects to be doing a VR film, because let’s face it, Frank’s time hidden in the attic trying to avoid Nazis who wanted to murder her wasn’t the most pleasant of times, so a VR movie experience that sells an It’s as if you were there! pitch could be conceived as somewhat crass.

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