Documentaries

‘It is perhaps more generous and worthwhile to simply accept that documentary can never be the real world, that the camera can never capture life as it would have unraveled had it not interfered, and the results of this collision between apparatus and subject are what constitutes a documentary’. (Bruzzi 2000, p. 6-7) 

This quote was introduced to the class today as it reveals exactly what a documentary is. Although it's aim is to demonstrate the reality of a subject or a person it still does not capture the real truth. I found this lecture extremely interesting because I tended to propose the frequent question- what is the actual truth? If news events and even documentaries appear to always be somewhat framed it always makes me question reality.