Can anyone help explain the quote below? \"Any overly simplified dichotomy betwe

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Can anyone help explain the quote below?

"Any overly simplified dichotomy between truth and fiction is at the root of our difficulty in thinking about the truth in documentary. The choice is not between two entirely separate regimes of truth and fiction. The choice, rather, is in strategies of fiction for the approach to relative truths. Documentary is not fiction and should not be conflated with it. But documentary can and should use all the strategies of fictional construction to get at truths." - Linda Williams

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Linda Williams in this quote is contrasting truth and fiction. She says that this contrast is simplified to that extent that it brings about misunderstanding. The truth is presented in such a manner in a documentary that it is difficult to understand. If documentary applies strategies of fiction, while presenting the truth, this problem could be solved, but, it should be taken care that elements of fiction should not dominate the truths of the documentary.

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