mockumentary
మాక్యుమెంటరి
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An elaborate in-joke that might have been concocted at a dinner like the one we see onscreen, Incident at Loch Ness is a satirical mockumentary that will delight Herzog aficionados.
a motion picture or television program that takes the form of a serious documentary in order to satirize its subject.
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An elaborate in-joke that might have been concocted at a dinner like the one we see onscreen, Incident at Loch Ness is a satirical 'mockumentary' that will delight Herzog aficionados.
It's a 'mockumentary' tracking two people's bargain-hunting extremism.
The 'mockumentary' tells us he has keen intelligence, but it only manifests itself in a few lightning-fast assessments of street situations.
Clearly you're here in the flesh and you have this, it's a 'mockumentary' film, right?
It needs a little more mocking to be a good 'mockumentary' .
This 'mockumentary' is either going to be brilliant or crushingly disappointing.
However, after about five minutes of 'mockumentary' footage, we move into the main story, and that's where things fall apart… fast.
What results is a beautiful mess of a movie, at once a drama, a comedy, a love story, a documentary, a 'mockumentary' , and something else altogether.
Having failed to find funding for other, more ambitious scripts, the trio realized the wisdom in sticking with a subject they knew and doing the story as a 'mockumentary' .
This never seems like a 'mockumentary' - rather a serious attempt by an unknown to uncover the truth.
The film was received so warmly that the three friends decided to expand the film into a 'mockumentary' .
This is an intriguing concept, well put together, with the 'mockumentary' crew detailing the action in a lead up to the fight.
It gives the story a slight metafictional spin, bouncing between blatant product placement and 'mockumentary' .
While we ultimately know this film is a 'mockumentary' , these techniques allow us to temporarily suspend our disbelief.
Basically, I've been haunted by 'mockumentarians' for the past few weeks.
I know its easy to pin the race card on the Republicans, but it just doesn't work there, no matter how much a certain 'mockumentarian' wants us to believe so.
However, the 'mockumentarians' are never mentioned.
If anything can be called a delicate art, it's making 'mockumentaries' .
Is there a real shift here in political documentaries that are starting to become more like 'mockumentaries' or shockumentaries.
Tightly edited, it doesn't grow as slack or indulgent as many 'mockumentaries' do.
The main difference is that our 'mockumentarians' are throwing rocks, or perhaps lobbing cream pies, in their own glass house.
I laughed out loud two or three times, but considering the joy I got from the previous 'mockumentaries' , this was a failure.
The tone is loose and playful throughout - even when things get violent, the film's jaunty 'mockumentarian' style is never lacking in wit and sarcasm.
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