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Posted by Lincoln Spector on 09/11/06 01:07
"Jim Reid" <jimreid56@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1157824892.165800.66000@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> I am sure that you complained about Michale Moore's film too............
>> (probably not)
>
> Michael Moore's films are not documentarys as we know them. He has a
> political agenda and makes no pretenses any other way. Not sure what
> there is to complain about. If you don't like what he says, don't watch
> his films.
Before Bowling for Columbine was nominated for the documentary Oscar, I
never heard anyone suggest that objectivity was part of the definition of
"documentary." Indeed, I took a class in documentaries in college and we
studied Triumph of the Will.
All documentaries are trying to sell a point of view. Moore is just very
open about it.
Now, you could reasonably argue that Moore's unwillingness to take the other
side's point of view seriously hurts the quality of his work; that other
documentaries are better because, even though they are biased, they let the
other side have it's say. That's a legitimate criticism.
But his films (except Canadian Bacon of course) are clearly documentaries.
Lincoln
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