 What would the author likely say about himself?
Can a documentary use scripted scenes and yet remain ontologically authentic? The director selected his four subjects from many hundreds of potential candidates, followed them around for months, and then scripted their monologues and dialogues to reflect what he says he saw. Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths." Michael turns out to be the film's most sympathetic subject--by a wide margin.
 he's an expert at critiquing films
 he only likes certain film genres  he's an expert at critiquing films  his opinion is different from most peoples'  his films are better than most that he's seen