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Stop Expecting Documentaries To Be Everything

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Christopher Campbell
Feb 12, 2014
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As we learned from an animated fiction film this week, everything is awesome. But in the real world, everything is impossible. Not every thing. Everything. As in we can’t fit everything into a feature-length film, no matter the subject. So why do people demand that documentaries must include everything? Don’t they realize that to address every single as…

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