What do you think documentaries are? How do you define documentary? Many people have been asked this question, and of course there are no shortage of documentary filmmakers. The more tactful answer is that it depends on each person's understanding of it, because my definition may not be the same as yours, and because this is an open question in itself.
However, I still appreciate Nichols saying that documentaries are about showing reality as much as possible and convincing viewers to seek understanding. So when the director answered the question about the objectivity and subjectivity of documentaries, he said lightly, who said that documentaries cannot be subjective, and couldn't help but applaud. In a sense, all good documentaries have strategies and deployments from the very beginning. Even if those events and characters themselves are clearly recorded, those details and processes are actually set with perspective and direction early in the morning.
I was discussing "Waltz With Bashir" with a friend once, arguing whether a film that seemed to be fictitious and obvious in both its presentation and content was considered a documentary. Now that I think about it, I think this debate is fun and meaningless.
What is a documentary? It is an inconclusive question in itself.
According to Nichols, "Waltz With Bashir" should be a great documentary with technological and conceptual innovations when the fictional scene is reproduced as much as possible to represent reality, and it affects the understanding and recognition of most audiences.
A somewhat related digression, I just read Rigo's "Notes on Riefenstahl", she said that Rossellini, Karajan and Heidegger were all forgiven, only Riefenstahl, this shot In "The Triumph of the Will", the woman who showed Hitler's strong will with a high-angle camera, a method of obliterating the individual, a grand scene, and a radical blood, was still exhausted on the beach of hatred.
Although I don't like Riefenstahl, I don't know why, I suddenly remembered what my friend said to me that day, if it is used for persuasion and incitement, if it is not a mainstream existence, between restrained fate and unrestrained talent, How to choose?
I can't answer.
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