Moore’s lesson: No one’s objective
Re “Partisan ‘9/11’ Signals New Era for Documentaries,” by David Macaray, July 12): Documentary 101 in college will start with the “rude awakening” that, by merely turning the camera to focus on a subject, the documentarian is already making a “statement” film -- namely, that the film’s subject warrants attention.
Leni Riefenstahl knew and documentarians today know that the “raw” footage can be collated, edited and combined to propound many points of view. “Woodstock” raw footage could have easily been used to demonstrate the decay of modern civilization in a bacchanal of drugs and self-indulgence instead of a celebration of youth, music, tolerance and love.
What Michael Moore has done, along with Fox News Channel, is to wake us all up to the fact that there is no objectivity on the screen and there really never has been.
Andrew Tilles
Studio City
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