She says basically that it simplifies us their experiences and loses out on nuance. She doesn't specify what is actually she finds problematic in the film since I haven't seen it yet, I can't say whether anything seems exploitative or reductive to me. She says that she opened up during dealing with postpartum depression during the lockdown, and that made her vulnerable. But in opening up, she made herself vulnerable. And it isn't the story. She turns out that she wanted to tell
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:20
But now that I know that that's part of her truth, it's going to be really hard for me to just sit back and absorb it. But this is the challenge of all. Iterative storytelling, right? You have the source, and then you have the people treating the source and then you have the edits and it becomes derivative. So it's part of the challenge of doing the great work of documentary when you have to figure out is this my story or the story of my subject