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...dissidents resolve to battle the armed police and National Guard patrols with makeshift weapons, and the law enforcement agents respond by indiscriminately firing on their assailants and unarmed dissidents alike.This carnage is all the more horrifying because the documentary style drives home the narrative. Watkins acts as the documentary??s off-screen narrator, but as the film’s action becomes lethal, he drops his dispassionate, journalistic demeanor and becomes completely unhinged. Imagine “The Blair Witch Project” written and directed by George Orwell—that is the terrifying power...
...words “economic documentary?? and “sexy good time” are rarely used to describe the same movie, and despite a brief tribute to one executive’s stripper fetish, Alex Gibney’s “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” continues this trend...
With such an adventuresome spirit, misfires are inevitable—note the bizarre readings of random chapters of “Moby Dick” also included in the documentary??but sometimes it works and creates something glorious far beyond the bounds of convention. “Fake” is one such effort...
This is the challenge of creating a war documentary??making sense of an incoherent situation without betraying the subject. What life is like for the soldiers cannot be fully communicated, but it can be appreciated. Palace avoids the easy spoon-feed of any particular moral or political statement; instead it finds its message in the words of the soldiers themselves...
Likening the array of political films to a “motion picture media bouillabaisse being offered up to the American public,” McElwee observes that the problem of “real documentary?? is increasingly irrelevant...