gregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1259cross-posted to: entertainment@lemm.eeusnews@beehaw.org
arrow-up1259external-linkMorgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53www.nbcnews.comgregorum@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square64fedilinkcross-posted to: entertainment@lemm.eeusnews@beehaw.org
minus-squarekandohlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month 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-up14·1 month agoBecause years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
minus-squaregamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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…