Moana

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The definition of documentary varies between the personal opinions of filmmakers and critics. The term was first devised in 1926 by “The Moviegoer” a.k.a. John Grierson, a Scottish filmmaker and film critic when describing the film Moana as having “documentary value”. Grierson defined the term documentary as “creative treatment of reality”. His approach to documentary film was that the “original” actor and scene are superior to those that are fictitious. Another film critic, Pare Lorentz described the term documentary as “a factual film which is dramatic”, a viewpoint parallel to that of Grierson’s. A dissimilar stance on documentary came from Dziga Vertov, a Soviet filmmaker who described the term as “life as it is”. All three perspectives …show more content…

Moore personifies his documentary by using humour, music and witty commentary to enrich its reality. Furthermore, Moore presses on the reality by the visual style of the film. An example of this is during the scene of the Twin Towers’ crash, when there was a moment where the camera filmed the sky as the ashes from the Towers were falling. Visually, it was beautiful, but the use of slow-motion and of the sorrowful reactions of the surrounding community, made the scene (which, in reality, was genuinely heart-breaking) more dramatic. Another way Moore is creative with reality is during the scene where Iraq is shown as a serene nation, whose people are happy and fulfilled, and then suddenly, it was completely demolished by the U.S. invasion. Factually, that is true, to a certain extent. Nonetheless, the audience knows that Saddam Hussein was a threat to his own nation, which makes the depiction of the first part of the scene in Iraq questionable. More importantly, Moore uses the reality he chooses to display to gain people’s sympathies, which at times was contradictory and

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