Watch Documentaries With An Eye For The Truth
In an ideal world when a filmmaker set out to make a documentary film he would endeavor to accumulate as much unbiased, purposeful information about his chosen subject as he could find. At this point he would use his talents as director and editor to [compile|produce] a [movie|film] without [prejudice|bias] to [decently|properly] shine the illuminating light of reality on the [topic|subject] involved.
As always, things are never quite as simple as they should be. Many documentaries turn out to have a bias based on the beliefs of the filmmaker resulting in a film that lacks the balance that the art of documentary-making requires.
It is especially important to be mindful of these tendencies when regarding subjects that have a tendency to polarize human opinion. I have found that politics and religion are the two topics where it is usually impossible to find an impartial voice.
It seems that many documentary makers approach their film making as a means of winning over the viewer to their prejudiced ideas instead of using the documentary as a vehicle for factual accuracy.
Because of this it is crucial that we the viewers are constantly aware of possible bias whenever we watch a documentary movie. Understand that a person who makes documentaries is merely another human being with their own ideas about how the world works who is trying to communicate their thoughts through the medium of film.
Indeed its just as important to recognize your own prejudice beliefs when trying to understand the thoughts of other. Just because a fact doesn't conform to your preconceived ideas doesn't necessarily mean it has no intrinsic value or is false.
When someone confronts you with an idea that seems strange or conflicts with what you believe to be true try reexamining your own thoughts. You never know, you might just learn something.
One of the best things about the fact that so many of us now have constant Internet availability is that we have such easy access to a wide range of media sources. The thing that makes the Internet truly great to me is the fact that we know have unlimited access to a huge variety of media sources. - 23806
As always, things are never quite as simple as they should be. Many documentaries turn out to have a bias based on the beliefs of the filmmaker resulting in a film that lacks the balance that the art of documentary-making requires.
It is especially important to be mindful of these tendencies when regarding subjects that have a tendency to polarize human opinion. I have found that politics and religion are the two topics where it is usually impossible to find an impartial voice.
It seems that many documentary makers approach their film making as a means of winning over the viewer to their prejudiced ideas instead of using the documentary as a vehicle for factual accuracy.
Because of this it is crucial that we the viewers are constantly aware of possible bias whenever we watch a documentary movie. Understand that a person who makes documentaries is merely another human being with their own ideas about how the world works who is trying to communicate their thoughts through the medium of film.
Indeed its just as important to recognize your own prejudice beliefs when trying to understand the thoughts of other. Just because a fact doesn't conform to your preconceived ideas doesn't necessarily mean it has no intrinsic value or is false.
When someone confronts you with an idea that seems strange or conflicts with what you believe to be true try reexamining your own thoughts. You never know, you might just learn something.
One of the best things about the fact that so many of us now have constant Internet availability is that we have such easy access to a wide range of media sources. The thing that makes the Internet truly great to me is the fact that we know have unlimited access to a huge variety of media sources. - 23806
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