We've been conditioned to accept as normal movies in which the main
character, Chuck Norris for example, kills half the population of
China with one finger. Films are meant to entertain, and the
spectators just don't want to see smaller than life productions.
Looking for realism in Hollywood films is like looking for money in
the garbage container. On the other hand documentary films are
supposed to be dedicated to education and facts. However, most of the
popular documentaries presented by International TV channels have
turned into a slightly more boring version of regular Hollywood
movies.
A good example of fake documentary is Man vs. Wild with
Bear Grylls. Let's see what we have here: a man in the “wild” who
often has to drink his own urine in order to survive through all
kinds of cataclysms. He is being filmed by a mysterious camera man
who is supposedly living well while recording videos of people
drinking their own piss. N-i-c-e! What the public is not allowed to
see is the fact that there is a whole camera crew behind every show,
a doctor and probably even a therapist who takes care of this fake
Robinson Crusoe. The whole thing is no different than a reality show
which is no different than a regular movie. The success of Man vs.
Wild have been tremendous and I wouldn't be surprised if the used
underwear of Bear Grylls sells for a few mills at a private auction.
He is already selling books, knives, tomahawks, screwdrivers, nuts,
nails, condoms for the wild..etc. for fifty times their stock value.
Tell me more about how you learn about real life from documentaries!
Please.
Documentaries are subject to corruption just like regular Hollywood drama because it's expected that they will educate people about how the world works. It happens from time to time but there are also scrips and real actors hired to re-create the scenes. This is how you put people in the “mood” to accept what they as real. For example, documentaries talking about near death experience will usually show emergency rooms, ER doctors, surgeries and what not to make the presented material more realistic and entertaining. Mystic music and voice effects will be used to dig even deeper into the human brain and manipulate the visual senses of the individual. If you remove all of the sorcery all that's left are interviews with people who may or may not be completely insane. At the same time what is presented as fact could also be misleading since nobody has the time to check whether the person talking is actually the one he pretends to be.
Suspicious “facts”, quotes used out of the context, actors, sound
& visual effects, hidden symbols and misleading messages could be
much more dangerous than a science-fiction Hollywood movie which does
not claim to be real anyway. The directors and the sponsors count on
people's general laziness, lack of education and marvelous ability to
absorb stupid things. The official cover-up story is that everything
is supposed to be made more professional so that the spectator can
really feel the world that's presented on the screen. The
manipulation is so powerful that if the man with money wanted to
invent a new kind of animal species, they could do it with enough
propaganda and distortion of the facts. Who will check if it's real?
As always the problem comes down to the naivete of the general
population.
Below are a few clips exposing Men in the Wild:
