To Exist Is to Question Existence Itself
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published 19/10/2007
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SummaryWriters define themselves by their purposes. A novelist writes to entertain, to embrace the imagination and create a world of escape for the reader. A columnist writes to inform, to relay the facts and describe a world of current events for the reader. What, however, exists in-between? With such a large gray area between truth and untruth, surely some writers thrive upon this ambiguity, writers who can both relay the facts and create the world in which these facts exist. These writers are documentarians, individuals who have found that balance between fiction and nonfiction, who do not lie but are fastidious about the truth they tell. And in their actions and in their desires, they have formulated firsthand the definition of a documentary; for a documentary strives not to answer the questions previously conceived by society, but strives instead to devise its own questions for society to answer itself.
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- Writers define themselves by their purposes.
- The main difference between a documentary and other forms of writing is the proper balance of subjectivity and objectivity.
- The first choice a documentarian makes that solidifies this definition of a documentary is his subject matter.
- If a documentary were to lack emotional input, it would consequently lack opinion.
- Although it comes short of developing the questions a documentary should ask, Bowling for Columbine does embody the overall essence of one.
- The power of the documentarian to choose what becomes part of his documentary is the strongest voice he has.
- This purpose is a purpose of questions and answers, of truths and manipulation; it is a game where the documentarian is the king and the audience merely pawns.
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