![]() All story, nothing but story, so help us, God. ![]() Their wardrobes and the lighting of the rooms in which they’re being interviewed don’t even acknowledge the passing of time. In telling the story of two adult men’s tortuous history with Michael Jackson, all Leaving Neverland really has is those two men sitting in front of a camera, illustrating their pain as best they can. What makes Dan Reed’s Leaving Neverlan d so atypical for a documentary, and ultimately so devastating, is that it can’t defer to the viewers’ visual appetites. The best documentaries are able to put an image directly in front of those eyes of ours and as the light reaches rods and cones, they say “See! See! There’s the truth you were looking for.” Film is a visual medium and our eyes are starving.įeature-length documentaries, such as the four-hour Leaving Neverland, are often seen as the definitive version of the truth given that we fancy our eyes as the most compelling instrument for truth seeking.
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