concise articulate words on Frederick Wiseman's style of filmmaking...

"But there is another documentary tradition, one that tugs against, and often defies, the impulses of plot, argument and easily digested information. There are nonfiction films that force you to suppress your summarizing reflexes, to slow your thinking and open your sensory receptors to new modes of perception, even when what you are perceiving seems to be perfectly ordinary."
- A.O. Scott, link to whole article