Examples Of Reflexivity In Stories We Tell

To make a film have reflexivity, we first need to know what that means. A film that is reflexive is when the viewers know of how the film is made. It can simply be understood as making a movie about another movie. Stories We Tell, made by Sarah Polley, is an example of reflexivity; her documentary explores her families’ life. Her story is in a way an adventure through telling her mother’s life and how she was conceived. I think Sarah makes the movie as a way to get to know her mom. Sarah’s mother is the center of this documentary. As the story progresses, it reveals to the viewers the drama that happened in her life, in chronological order, as it happened to Sarah. She tells her family and other interviewees to tell the story from the very