7 most amusing mockumentary paintings

After the implementation of the most daring innovators and pans exposing the cunning of the bases of counterfeiters is difficult to understand which frames reflect reality. This successfully used by filmmakers in the genre mokyumentari.

The science It is developing by leaps and bounds. For centuries the existing fundamental theories scatter the ashes due to the discovery of some trifles. Researchers regularly deny the veracity of the diaries, historical newsreels, interviewers honesty. However…

Serious attitude to anything else in this world is a fatal mistake.

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"

Falsification of data is not necessarily a sign of something wrong. Some movie mokyumentari deliberately distorted facts and lies brought to the absurd, to amuse the audience. Here are seven of the most amusing mockumentary pictures.

This Is Spinal Tap

• United States, 1984.
• Duration: 82 min.
• IMDb: 8,0.
• "Kinopoisk": 7.0.

A film about the heavy metal band Spinal Tap, whose popularity goes to wane. The creators wanted to make fun of pathetic behavior of real musicians: Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and the like. But the audience does not realize that it was the only satire, and took a picture of the documentary.

The most interesting is that the fictional band after the release of the film has become a real and released three albums. Over time, the film won the well-deserved success. But the idea is clearly not succeeded as planned.

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real vampires

• New Zealand, 2014.
• Duration: 85 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.
• "Kinopoisk": 7.4.

Parodic story about the difficult lives of four vampires in New Zealand. For hundreds of years, they have not learned to adapt to society. But now a lot of social phobia and among ordinary people. Therefore vampires manage to hide their secret, and even make friends.

For a fresh look and witty disclosure vampire theme film was well received by critics. The European and American press unanimously called it the best comedy of the year.

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Man Bites Dog

• Belgium, 1992.
• Duration: 95 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.
• "Kinopoisk": 7.2.

Ben - intellectual development, sensitive to the mother of a young man delicate emotional organization. And concurrently it - a serial killer. His life is chosen for the scene of the documentary. The crew should be behind him, recording his crimes and his satirical comments.

Characteristic absurd style of Belgian cinema, expressive play of Benoît Poelvoorde and two "Palm" - the film is considered to be a cult classic in the genre mokyumentari.

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I'm Still Here

• United States, 2010.
• Duration: 108 min.
• IMDb: 6,2.
• "Kinopoisk": 6.5.

In 2008, actor Joaquin Phoenix announced that leaves Hollywood for hip-hop. For a whole year he worked in the music industry, and Casey Affleck was filming it. In fact, it was a study popularity and the interaction of celebrities, media and spectators.

The filmmakers tried several times to expose, but many believed Joaquin Phoenix. Even in stellar environments.

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My Winnipeg

• Canada, 2007.
• Duration: 80 min.
• IMDb: 7,6.
• "Kinopoisk": 7.3.

The film, in which Guy Maddin making a film about himself, to make films. Where reality ends and fiction begins, difficult to understand. Perhaps, this is worth reading bookWhich the filmmakers released two years later.

In any case, the recursive surrealism gives aesthetic pleasure and without deep understanding. According to the director, the film - a "dokufantaziya" which mixed history of human, civic tragedy and mystical hypothesis.

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Borate

• United Kingdom, 2006.
• Duration: 84 min.
• IMDb: 7,3.
• "Kinopoisk": 6.6.

Adventures Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional popular comedian Sashoy Baron Cohen. Although jokes there is vulgar and anti-Semitic, the film was a huge success with audiences and critics, was nominated for "Oscar" and "Golden Globes".

Not too positively took a picture of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry. But Sacha Baron Cohen chose to laugh it off. But Klitschko, who was a countryman Borat, comedian met in a restaurant, angrily threatened him with violence than pretty scared London actor. But fortunately Cohen, it was just a joke.

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Zelig

• United States, 1983.
• Duration: 76 min.
• IMDb: 7,8.
• "Kinopoisk": 7.9.

Without this selection mokyumentari would be incomplete. Classic movies from the mockumentary Woody Allen. hero of the film - a nondescript American. But his abilities are phenomenal when Zelig someone speaks, he begins to copy facial expressions, gestures and intonation until the complete transformation in the interlocutor.

25 years after the film's release in psychiatry patients similar behavior has been called Zelig syndrome.

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