Where most documentaries prize clarity, this one attests to the power of estrangement.
In his 2013 mini-tour documentary, Moment of Clarity, we learn that Zaslavski was born in Saratov, Russia, before immigrating to Kaiserslautern, Germany as a toddler.
For me, it had neither the energy of Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street nor the plain informative clarity of a documentary like Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.
Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play, drawn from documentary evidence, reveals with devastating clarity the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard Law, the archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families and destroyed more than a few lives.
As many of us know from experience, and as others will see with extreme clarity in a documentary film called "The Boys of 2nd Street Park," an awful lot of kids from that generation were barely able -- in some cases, unable -- to save even themselves.
But a long night of Netflix documentaries and pizza brought about some clarity.
Though Mr. Collison said the "quality of voice didn't matter," the documentary's graceful intimacy springs from its narrator's clarity and use of simple, vivid imagery.
Tyson acknowledges that much of this autobiographical material was surveyed in the 2008 documentary "Tyson," but he says his recovery has given him new clarity.
But what marks Armadillo out is that it achieves a level of thematic clarity and coherence that only the very best documentaries have.
Innumerable books, documentaries, and Chappelle's Show skits have attempted to offer clarity, but only made things murkier.
