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unknowable
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LAURIE WINER Telegraph (UK) **** "Martin draws us skilfully and boldly into a world in which near drownings, lost loves, stalkers, and the loaded gun which must finally go off, are not nearly as terrifying as the unknowability of the human psyche.
Freidrichs's approach is instead to embrace the unknowability of his subject and interweave it delicately with his own epistephilia, with his own desire as documentarian to present some kind of "truth" to the serious-minded viewer that many film critics presuppose as the documentary audience.
Implicit in this statement is also the unknowability of her father, since the surviving white family's refusal to acknowledge her own existence and (what she saw as) its destruction of her mother for the transgression of racist protocol involved in her own conception, effectively erased him, too, from recordable history.
 
 
 
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