Monday, 24 September 2018

Documentary Theorists

Michael Moore
Bowling for Columbine - 2003
Farenheit 9/11 v- 2004
Sicko - 2007

Left Wing filmmaker
Appears in his films
Clear bias against capitalism
Bowling for Columbine - capitalism create fear for profit
Confused narrative, all over the place
Emotive but irrelevant points
Finishes on a low, manipulates you into fearing the system, if it was a narrative film would've finished on K-Mart banning the bullets



Nick Broomfield
Broomfield shows everything but doesn't really shape into a narrative - shows his investigation to make it genuine, not to make points.
E.g. in Bowling for Columbine - argued against guns, racism etc. but didn't focus on the event

Asif Kapadia
'True fiction' narrative structure, coined by him

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