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Netflix Drama Questions Documentary Trust
Possible Love challenges documentary filmmakers' authenticity with a fictional drama about class differences and manipulation.
In brief
Possible Love challenges documentary filmmakers' authenticity with a fictional drama about class differences and manipulation. Netflix's Possible Love shows how documentary filmmakers can manipulate subjects for their own gain, questioning the trustworthiness of documentary truth. Originally reported by Decider.
Netflix's Possible Love
Netflix released Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love, a fictional drama about documentary filmmaking.
Documentary Filmmaking Question
Both Possible Love and You Can See Everything challenge how much viewers can trust documentary filmmakers to capture truth.
Possible Love Plot
Jeon Do-yeon stars as Mi-ok, a working-class woman who befriends a documentary filmmaker named Director Lee.
Director Lee's Manipulation
Director Lee uses her camera to film Mi-ok's life while pretending to share equal friendship with her.
You Can See Everything
You Can See Everything questions whether Nathan Fielder's documentary filmmaker relationship with Elizabeth Holmes is genuine.
Authenticity Challenge
Documentary filmmakers are artists with their own biases, and viewers must question the authenticity of both films.
What to remember
Netflix's Possible Love shows how documentary filmmakers can manipulate subjects for their own gain, questioning the trustworthiness of documentary truth.
