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um...if you thin k documentaries are factual, you are even more naieve than i had assumed up to now--the genre developed as a form of critique--they are arguments about how the film-maker thinks the would either is or should be--they are opposed to the dominant cultural order, which is itself an argument institutionalized.
of course they are not objective.
of course they are arguments.
and they are to be viewed as such.
the national geographic/science show variant you watch on pbs is a minor offshoot, a particular variant, with assumptions that are not like those of most documentaries.
dont be so passive a consumer of infotainment.
geez.
and on what basis you you find a film you havent seen to defy creduilty?
why not see it and try making an informed critique?
anything short of that is just tiresome.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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