Documentary films make their arguments many ways: images, words, sounds, music, cinematic techniques. Your job is to analyze the rhetorical strategies and film techniques the filmmaker uses to make their point.
You can organize your analysis frame by frame, sequence by sequence. You can focus on one representative segment in detail. You can follow a particular motif.
Do not try to cover everything. Choose those portions you think are the most significant.
Explain why these seem the most persuasive. Analyze how the filmmaker uses them (and/or the techniques and devices therein) to present and/or support the argument.
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