Everybody likes a laugh. After all ‘he who laughs, lasts.’ But what if a good yarn comes at the expense of keeping ourselves alert to the truth?
After Michael Moore’s documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002) won the Oscar for best documentary, some critics and filmmakers publicly questioned whether it would have been better for the film to have been categorized as a mockumentary. Not because they were jealous of its success, but because they were genuinely concerned that Columbine was actually more fiction than fact.
