gregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down12
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comgregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarekandoh@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoHe’s a good lesson in why you can’t take a documentary as 100% truth, no matter how good it is or how much the message confirms your biases.
minus-squareIronpigsWizard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoYeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned…
minus-squareCheems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoBecause years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoBecause he was a massive alcoholic and was experiencing the effects of detox and passing it off as what he was doing for the documentary They said “he is” not “here is”
He’s a good lesson in why you can’t take a documentary as 100% truth, no matter how good it is or how much the message confirms your biases.
Yeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned…
Because years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
Because he was a massive alcoholic and was experiencing the effects of detox and passing it off as what he was doing for the documentary
They said “he is” not “here is”