Sport documentaries muddle grey area of storytelling vs reality

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As every sport seemingly gets its own documentary, Matt Readman assesses whether they’re meddling with reality.

There is a famous rule in nature documentary filmmaking: observe, but never intervene.

The moment the camera changes the behaviour of its subject, it stops documenting reality and starts creating it.

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