Re: What\'s your opinion on Michael Moore?
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MrMon,
also, to be fair, if he were a scientist his films would be 100 hours long
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to clarify: the "lie of omission" argument is one i have trouble buying when applied to any documentary filmmaker. the nature of the medium requires that we're only going to see, at best, 5% of the information the filmmaker has access to, so to say they're lying by leaving stuff out is kind of a low blow. do filmmakers leave stuff out that maybe they shouldn't? sure. but chances are they also leave the same amount of material out that would argue in the opposite direction.
so, really, it's lazy criticism to say "oh, well so-and-so didn't tell us the whole story". of course not. that's not his job.
his job is to make a compelling film about a non-fiction topic
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