The personal subject matter of Nobody’s Business does not have the obvious social relevance of The Thin Blue Line. But consider
Nichols’ comments on how documentary is “more than evidence”, that it is a
particular way of seeing the world and offering perspectives on it. That is, a
documentary offers an interpretation of the world.
How do you think the filmmaker “interprets” his father?
Do you think the doc gets to any truths about human
experience beyond the filmmaker’s family? What do you think it has to say, for
example, about mourning, memory, romance, family, or dealing with the past?
What formal strategies (or “elements of documentary”) seem
significant to you in Nobody’s Business?
What role do they play in the creative treatment of the filmmaker’s father and
own history? How do they work in the film’s “organizing logic”?
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