Medium Cool--some thoughts

I preferred the medium used by the director for this film, as it skipped over the pitfalls of the documentary. It acknowledges the director's hand in shaping the perspective of the truth by blatantly proposing arguments of fact and causality through placing fictional characters within historically accurate settings.
The director also made good use his media-savvy audience, trained by watching television, films, and even short clips from the news and commercials to pick up cinematic shorthand. Wexler also referenced all of these media entities the audience previously viewed. He used the mass media's discourse on gender, race, and class to his advantage---poking hole sin the argument we assumed to be fact.
I saw this film as an amazing proposition of fact, and was more attracted to the creator's rhetorical prowess than visual display.