Choice C. Comment on the the driving scene, narrated by the director. It starts with: “this documentary has become something different” Why do you think he decided to put himself in the video? What do you think he means when he says this: “I’d rather be stupid and not know about this kind of stuff.” In your opinion, is My Kid Could Paint That a typical documentary?
My Kid Coyld Paint That in my opinion is not the style of documentary the director intented, it starts of following the traditional documentary pattern where the director barely gets involved and it is literally just the family in focus, however when Marla's parents are said to have helped or in fact painted the pictures for her, thats when the documentary changes; firstly for the family as theyt attempt to use the documentary to clear the accusations made agaisnt them and secondly for the director who begins to doubt Marlas talent himself and makes this apparent to the views.
''I'd rather be stupid and not know about this kind of stuff.'' is were the director indicates he is doubting Marlas talent and in doing so also makes us doubt her aswell. This statement has a very powerfull affect on us as we would automaticaly assume that he would be sure this is infact not true, but by doubting he gets are focus again and therefore we continue with the document. I feel this was a technique used to keep are attention as viewers and further he sucess, because he continues to doubt even after Marlas work was recorded from start to finish and everyone else had accepted that she had infact done the work.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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