I thnk that that's ultimately correct- that movies are such a fundamental part of our lives and our cultural heritage that for this subject not to be touched on ... encourages us to avoid so much as thinking about it.

Do you really mean what you seem to say here: that we are unlikely to so much as think about anything that doesn't have a movie made about it?

It's the very fact that even without a movie people can't stop thinking about it, haven't been able to for 5 years, that's causing many of the objections to this movie.