"A country without documentaries is like a family without photo albums," Guzman said. In his eyes, documentaries are like albums that can record history and look forward to the future. When opening the album, it is the reappearance of history, the confusion, pain, distress, and struggle experienced by that era and its people. or happiness. Because of the heavy responsibility of history, the documentary should be stable, because it convinces people with its sound and picture form and lively atmosphere. Especially when our descendants open up the dusty dirt and take care of the lives of their ancestors, what an important role the documentary should play!
Of course, the photographer always selects and edits the footage, which is beyond reproach. However, when the editor's personal identity is placed under the huge trend of the times and the eloquent facts, the so-called personal will and concept are so insignificant. Just like in a thousand-year-old capital, the best architect should have his buildings perfectly embedded in the city for harmony, rather than childishly accentuating his own identity. In "Fahrenheit 911", the editor's brand is everywhere, the strong vertical and horizontal contrast, the extremely concentrated contradictions and conflicts, can be understood by readers as an expression that enhances the drama and appeal of the film. But for major historical issues such as 9/11 and the Iraq War, it is far from a conclusion.
Director Moore never denied that the film was about ousting Bush, which contrasted with his highly subjective choices in editing. At a time when the mainstream is constantly striving to get closer to the truth, the film formed by using materials to prove subjective opinions makes people doubt whether it is still a documentary. It’s not so much a documentary, but rather a way of expressing opinions with the help of historical material. That kind of selection and arrangement is somewhat similar to the director of a fictional film, except that the latter is directing the results, the former is directing the material, and Coco is directing the material. Isn't it just to create results?
But the "Best Documentary" award still falls on this film, and this authority is undoubtedly a blow to ordinary readers like me. My love for documentaries stems from the diversity and inclusivity it connotes. "A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets" seems to apply to all aspects of life, and everyone has different protagonists, different eras and different documentaries. In a free atmosphere, everyone can freely choose their own taste, even if it is small and fresh and small literary and artistic. Mainstream people can still stand on a high ground and use mainstream thinking to enjoy the mainstream values they belong to; and the so-called marginalized people can also enjoy "he" in an inconspicuous corner, paying attention to those marginalized but always existing Culture; even in heated debates, both sides can find justification, perhaps enabling communication, dialogue and understanding while reproducing the shield. A good documentary should be like "A Dream of Red Mansions", showing an era or a group of people from an era.
However, the atmosphere of free thinking and breathing is hard to find in Fahrenheit 911. The fast jumping rhythm and fierce conflict seem to continue the style of American soap operas. It is quite appropriate to describe it as dazzling and dizzying. Here, entertainment becomes a kind of instinct and taste, and the instillation of value becomes a kind of persecution. When the 9/11 incident happened and the United States was attacked by terrorists, Bush read the text aloud to the students in the elementary school. After receiving the news, he did not respond for up to 7 minutes. At this time, the non-stop narration replaced all the spontaneous imagination of the audience, and no free assumptions of the audience were allowed, and ridicule and ridicule poured down like a torrential rain. Such narrations abound in the film.
Plato once said in "Republic" that Socrates once mentioned the difference between "knowledge" and "opinion", "information" and "opinion". For more advanced readers, knowledge and information often outweigh opinions and opinions, and this is a fitting place, because for documentaries, facts are far more important than opinions. At least "Fahrenheit 911" to me is like when a person understands a piece of news, what is given is not a report, but a comment, and no one knows what the author did to the facts in order to prove his point of view. selection, processing, sequencing and interpretation.
Yes, Moore has succeeded in making his point and making his vitriol even more pervasive. However, isn't the purpose of expression to make more people accept it? It is a pity that a smart reader will not change all perceptions because of his so-called documentary with a very subjective color, but has a critical vision to dig more materials about this history, so as to Form more persuasive cognition and judgment. And the results of the presidential election that followed seemed to prove it, Moore borrowed from real history to express his opinions, and on the surface, it was a perfect construction, but it could not shake the foundation of people's ideas. Maybe it's the fast pace that makes people see it as an entertainment game; maybe it's the intense conflict that makes people see it as a farce; maybe it's just because it's an energy that only reality has after all.
2012-03-22 22:28:34
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