Hey, I saw All Saint's Day! So there!

Teague's comment about how "if I can't believe a word you're saying, you're wasting my time" is really interesting. It's kind of the opposite of how I approach film. Film is inherently a lie, after all, so in most cases expecting truth is kinda futile.

It is a question of what genre the film is claiming to be. We react to "real" events differently than we do fiction. The same shot of people jumping from a skyscraper will have a different feel and effect if it is in a 9/11 documentary as opposed to a new Transformers movie.

Part of what Polley's doing is putting the audience in something like the position she'd been in most of her life. You're getting all these different narratives from people, often very vivid and emphatic that this is the truth, and what do you do? All facts are skewed necessarily by the storyteller, including the documentary itself, and the reveal is her way of saying to us "See how that works?"