gregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1259cross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.org
arrow-up1259external-linkMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comgregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square64fedilinkcross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.org
minus-squareGuy Ingonito@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years 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-squareCheems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 years agoBecause years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
minus-squarePsychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years 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”
minus-squareIronpigsWizard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoYeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned…
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.
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”
Yeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned…