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Ask HN: Are documentaries becoming more destructive than informative?

6 pointsby HoppedUpMenaceabout 6 years ago
I won't name any but with regards to lets say the past 20 years or so (perhaps since 2002, wink wink), and by mere virtue of the genre, it seems like the public considers them as proven fact, especially if you push the emotional narrative to dark places that people could never typically envision and ever so slightly twist "facts" around though creative editing.

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sloakenabout 6 years ago
Interestingly I just watched this video. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BgQ79evjylc?list=LLbN1lC_4raev2geuc6RhTpQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BgQ79evjylc?list=LLbN1lC_4raev2geuc6RhTpQ</a><p>And I was surprised about how they manipulate the information, well not the information but their knowledge of how you will react and thus push an emotion that does not match the information.
seluneabout 6 years ago
Can you give examples? I&#x27;m a huge doc nerd and in my opinion we&#x27;re in golden age of documentaries right now in terms of film-making. Documentaries have always been a way to express opinions though (personal or political), nothing surprising here. Basically anything made my humans will be stained with their worldview.<p>Some people believe Google or news outlets to be objective depictions of reality, I think, we just tend to oversimplify and not look too deeply into things that are not our primary concern.
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