This obviously indicates that he himself also thinks that it’s very probable that Biff will hate him even more for doing it, as the presence of “Ben”, a man whom he greatly admires for being a successful businessman, is a product of his own mind. His imagined dialogue partner tells him that Biff will consider the impending act one of cowardice. Maybe he has forgotten that the “old buyers” have already died of old age. Although perhaps this wrong foretelling could be attributed to senility, rather than his typical self-deception. Yet as was to be expected, this is not what happens, none of the people he sold to come. But even here in one of his last moments, while having a conversation with a ghost from the past, he continues to lie to himself by saying that his funeral will be a big event, and that there will be guests from all over his former working territory in attendance. He does it primarily because he thinks that the life insurance payout will allow Biff to come to something, so that at least one of the Lomans will fulfill his unrealistic dream of great wealth and success. Not only out of desperation because he just lost his job, with which he was hardly earning enough to pay ordinary expenses at the end. Thank goodness these films are around to help us understand them.On the last few pages of the play, Willy finally decides to take his own life ( and ).

And if you’re into bruising beefs, The King of Kong and Dig! both sit proudly at the compellingly ego-strewn end of our list of the greatest documentaries ever made. DA Pennebaker’s films offer a box seat in the lives of their subjects that money can’t buy, Jennie Livingston’s legendary LGBTQ+ doc Paris is Burning captures a cultural moment for eternity, while Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme’s concert films burnish musical greats with a sense of cinematic awe. That said, from the era of cinéma vérité onwards, great docs have been getting pretty damn close to the truth – and in endlessly entertaining style. You sit down expecting an objective truth, only to be reminded that there’s no such thing.

Starting with the Lumière brothers, the documentary has allowed filmmakers to observe and examine life in all its glory ( Apollo 11 ) and horror ( Shoah ), as well as take playful liberties with those grey areas between reality and fiction ( F For Fake, Dick Johnson is Dead ).

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