Why Do We Want Documentaries To Be Like Fiction Films?

Goran Olsson’s Concerning Violence, which just debuted at Sundance, quotes heavily from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, including some of the book’s final suggestion that Africa and the Americas should be pioneers and “take [humanity] to another level than the one where Europe has placed it.” It’s similar to arguments against assimilation of m…