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Originally Posted by SirSeymour
Please note that I never said anything about "fair". I said factual. To me that means not ignoring the half of something you don't like in order to fulfill some misguided attempt to support your arguement.
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Sounds like we're back to objectivity here. Anyway, "factual" can mean a lot of things. "Facts" are in the eye of the beholder. I may not agree with the "facts" in "Stolen Honor," but I wouldn't deny that it is a documentary.
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I'm not trying to politicise the word. In fact, to a degree I am trying to depoliticise it myself. I am tired of Moore's movie being refered to a documentary in a political attempt to give the movie more credibility than the facts presented there in warrant.
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There's the problem...to you, the term "documentary" confers credibility.
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Although it seems my beef over this issue is less with Moore and more with Hollywood since it is apparently Hollywood that considers propaganda a form of documentary. I consider that to be like equating two shots in the back of the head to brain surgery.
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It's not just Hollywood that qualifies some propaganda as worthy of the title "documentary," it is a standard idea in the study of cinema. Pehaps your personal ideas don't jibe with the standard school of thought? There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but don't act surprised when F9/11 is described as a documentary because, well, it is.