I especially enjoyed this week's reading - Ward's Documentary: The margins of reality. Once again, it discussed on the complex relationship between fiction, non fiction and documentary, an extremely arguable issue. The 'blurred boundary', as described by Bill Nichols (1994) is what makes documentary interesting.
Salesman (1969) showed in this week's lecture is great demonstration of the grey area. It is shot using documentary stylistic and aesthetic approach with real people's life recorded, but it was carefully edited and shaped into the version that we watch today. Besides, has the existence of the camera or the crew affected any of the salesmen's behavior? Paul Ward mentioned "...simply because they are a kind of improvised drama, then certain aspects of reality will never adequately be represented." Even though the statement is commenting on reenactment or performance of real life stories, I think it is applicable in such situation. However, it is still appropriate to say that reality is represented, in certain ways.
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