Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by ephemere (A) on May 22, 2004 at 18:39:28

In Reply to: the most annoying, self-important, manipulative, F*%K'd in the head posted by Jon L on May 22, 2004 at 18:20:29:

"some people might be fooled into thinking his 'documentaries' actually represent some kind of truth."

While others are fooled into thinking that documentaries are able to represent the truth in the first place. Frederick Wiseman is about as close as it gets to objective unbiased documentary filmmaking, and even he admits that it is impossible for the documentary filmmaker to completely avoid imparting his/her own ideas about the subject material onto the film.

It's never black and white. You may make a reasonable claim that Moore is near the bottom of the slippery slope, but it is still just one shade of gray.

Let the fur continue to fly....