Fiction or Reality – The scream at Long Bien Bridge

This series discusses the interplay between documentary and fiction in storytelling, drawing on quotes from Jean Luc Godard, a key figure in the French New Wave :

 “All great fiction films tend toward documentary, just as all great documentaries tend toward fiction . . . One who opts for one necessarily finds the other at the end of his journey.” “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.”

It highlights that effective narratives often combine elements of both genres, challenging traditional storytelling structures.

The series is a sample which is blurring the lines between documentary and fiction as we can’t really if it is stagged or a sequence of snapshots of a real event.

 “The scream” Sequence, shooting elapsed time: 20 seconds