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Your reminder that documentaries are the absolute worst medium for learning the truth about complicated subjects. The nature of the medium is to construct emoti
by cm2012 6y ago
Your reminder that documentaries are the absolute worst medium for learning the truth about complicated subjects. The nature of the medium is to construct emotional appeals and narratives at the expense of truth. Articles and books are much better in this regard.
Documentaries shine for slice of life type things.
- monadic3 6y agoNarrative is how most people communicate. This is hardly a bad thing. This idea that a medium can do anything but communicate narrative is ridiculous. Anyway, I wouldn't trust anything purporting to communicate the unadulterated Truth with a ten-foot pole. Name your bias and we're in business!
- gmtx725 6y agoI wouldnt class Adam Curtis's work as documentaries. More like... interesting stories and moods crafted from a collage of archive footage. They're just an interesting take, not necessarily claiming to be the capital-T 'Truth'...
- tobylane 6y agoBBC’s Horizon, especially before roughly 2012, was great for going to an hours worth of depth into a subject. Since then they’ve gone too emotional and narrative for me, no longer requiring gsce science.
- dingaling 6y agoWe joked that you could play a drinking game with the post-scienrlce era Horizon. Take a shot every time the narrator rhetorically asked "But why did it happen?"