More on Documentaries

I would like to start out by saying I agree with Patrick when he said, "And the reasoning to use animation to have a less emotional affect on people is flawed. If you are watching a documentary in the first place, it is supposed to be shocking and emotional. You want to feel the struggles of those in the film itself because it connects you more to the story and allows you to sympathize with the topic at hand." I agree that an animated documentary is a terrible way to approach it. Animation takes away the real, sometimes difficult images that come with a true documentary. Watching the animated documentaries in class, it did not impact me as much as if I was seeing real world images. Like I talked about in my last post, Restrepo is a true, powerful, and emotional documentary in the real world of war in Afghanistan. Nothing can even compare to the real images, animation is not nearly on the same level.





So, I think documentaries need to be left to the people who go out into the real world and capture true images. Animation just does not have the same emotional affect, and I am not saying all documentaries have to be sad or shocking, but they all have some sort of emotional affect they are trying to convey. I was disappointed with the documentaries we viewed in class because I expected to see the real world, not an animated world. Documentaries are the history books of the 21st century, and documentaries, I believe, are very necessary in the education of society on different events and issues around the world. It brings the real world right into your home, and to people that cannot afford or are otherwise unable to see it for themselves, especially war and what our troops go through. Many documentaries are suppose to be hard to watch, that's the point of them, shielding peoples eyes from the real world through animation should not be a thing.