I thought about Andrew Jarecki ("Jinx") and Nev Schulman ("Catfish") a lot while watching this movie. These guys manipulated timelines a lot in their respective documentaries but that doesn't make their films any less powerful or intriguing. Ultimately, in case of "Jinx", information uncovered in the film helped bring a man to justice - a very wealthy man who got away with murder more than once during his lifetime.
Regardless of that, documentaries are usually very one sided and I never rely on a documentary as an only source of information about a case or topic. Reading more about a topic usually shows that a documentary omitted some information in order to create a smoother narrative - that's what all the documentary filmmakers do, even if they don't serve an agenda. I don't know if things were different in the 'good old days' - maybe people believed in objectivity of the reporter back then, although we know now that "objectivity" is just a construct and I think that documentary filmmakers are being more honest about that these days.
On a side note, I really loved "While We're Young" because it doesn't patronize the viewers and it's truly postmodernist. A very good movie. Usually with Baumbauch I don't know what to expect, I disliked his editing in some other movies but this one is almost perfect.
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“Daydreaming subverts the world.” ~ Raoul Vaneigem
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