Derrida Documentary

After watching the Derrida Documentary film i feel not only do i have a better understanding of his theories, but also who he was as a person. It was interesting to match a face to the name. However, I would like to focus on the irony of the project in capturing the "true" Derrida. I believe the point of a biographical documentary is to inform an audience with as much meaning as possible on a particular subject, to help better the understanding of the audience on whatever that subject may be. Derrida's main theory is opposing this entire idea. He seems to believe that there can never be just one meaning to understanding anything, because meaning is unstable. I think the film directors do recognize this, but they still cannot help their patterned film making ways. To provide some acknowledgment to Derrida's ideas they allow some of the run time to show his disputes with the cameras and crew. Also by making the entire vision of the documentary intricate and busy they are providing some, maybe unconscious, insight to the theories of Derrida.