Like some of the most compelling documentaries in recent years, including Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (2012) and Casey Affleck's I'm Still Here (2010), 20,000 Days on Earth is an exercise in blurring truth and fiction, centred on a performer clearly sceptical of documentary as a factual medium.
Nearly all of her photographs are staged and scouted for lighting, location, casting, etc, consciously blurring truth, while giving a glimpse into a world often absent from popular view.
Mr. Putin did condemn the "cynical lies that have blurred the truth about the Katyn shootings," adding, however, that "it would also be a lie and manipulation to place the blame for these crimes on the Russian people".
Like Cervantes before him, Colbert used irony to sever his audiences' conflated identities; the discomfort and hilarity of his act stemmed from our watching as fictions that had blurred into truths were expertly extracted and revealed for what they were.
But nostalgia has a way of blurring the truth.
Those damn statistics may blur the truth, but the latter is not the credential of a genuine superstar.
The memoir left by brother Henry and other 19th-century family tributes tended to blur the truth about Austen's attitudes, interests and awareness.
But the overall rise in killings here blurs another truth: the homicides, most of which the authorities described as gang-against-gang shootings, have not been spread evenly across this city.
The national memorial site survived decades of the Soviet propaganda machine which tried to obliterate the name from maps and history books, often deliberately blurring the truth.
