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Documentary film

Documentary film is built on the paradox that you can't capture pure reality—framing is selection, editing is interpretation, even the camera's presence changes what happens—yet this doesn't make documentaries less true, just true in a more complex way. The best documentaries acknowledge their perspective rather than pretending to objectivity, trusting viewers to think alongside them.

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