The Illusion Of Reality—The Rhetoric Of "Fiction" In The Current Documentary Creation

In the field of documentary,the "fiction"-the "reality" opposite,as a rhetoric in the creation of legitimacy has been controversial.This paper will start with the history,sort out the changes of the "real" cognition in the documentary field in different historical periods,explore the relationship between "fiction and reality",and then combine the creative practice of the documentary "Village Diary" to explain the use of "fiction" in this film.Finally,the paper concludes the transformation from "reality" to "sense of reality" in the documentary,and summarizes the reasons why “fictional" rhetoric has become an important creative method in the current documentary creation.