Review of Fetishes (1996) by Michelle C — 13 Mar 2011

Wonderful and enlightening in a purely documentative manner, however not a very good documentary. Nick Broomfield was "asked to do" the project and very obviously has an unfortunate predisposition to the subject, little interest in truly understanding it, and an astonishing lack of nerve in exploring it.

Good documentaries often begin with the documentarian having one opinion on his subject, and then, by the end, after he has explored and learned, a changed, dynamic, more educated opinion. This does not happen.

Broomfield remains largely willfully ignorant and resistant to the world he explores seemingly grudgingly.