Word: fictions
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...should big-time directors make "small" docs? Because the discipline has aerobic artistic benefits--it's a workout for different muscles. To simplify a bit: directors of fiction films make things happen; directors of documentaries find things happening and shape them into a story. In a fiction film, the essential tool is the camera; in documentaries, it's the editing table. That is where the snippets of real life, even if staged as a concert, are analyzed and alchemized into a movie that, if the stars are aligned, entertains the audience as much as any Harry Potter blockbuster...
...concerns of Scorsese's docs reflect those of his fiction films: the yearning for roots, the twisted bonds of friendship, the lure of the forbidden, the appreciation of craftsmanship. The nonrock docs are such a crucial part of his artistic life, it's a shame they're not widely available. Where's an essential DVD when you need...
...tackled everything from vigilatism and muti killings (where a victim is killed for body parts to be used in witchcraft) to abalone smuggling and the murder of street children. In Nicol's latest novel, Payback, the protagonists are former gun-runners from the liberation struggle days. The new crime fiction captures the frustrations, fears and also optimism of a changing society, offering readers highly complex characters on both sides of the law. In South Africa, so long cast in black and white, capturing the shades of gray is the new challenge...
...Peak, former freedom fighter Thobela Mpayipheli is on a vigilante revenge mission after his eight-year-old adopted son is gunned down. Is he the good guy or the bad guy? Kunzman reckons: "The relationship between criminals and the forces of the law is different. American and British crime fiction is largely about a society that is firmly in control, but which is momentarily imbalanced by an act of murder. In South Africa, that's wishful thinking...
...sense of resolution and closure offered by dealing with crime via fiction. "It does feel very bleak and black sometimes, but crime is a fantasy genre, even while making social comment," says Orford. "The good guys win, just for a while...