Quote:
"Cinematically, The Displaced View tackles the notion of the documentary as truth. The construction of the film is documentary based, insofar as nonactors perform in stories which are based on authentic oral history—the cultural and familial links between three generations of Japanese-Canadian women. However, the stories are reconstructed and reassembled through a script, and the creation of a fictional family is used as the vehicle by which the audience reads the story."
-- Midi Onodera

Source:
Onodera, Midi. "Locating the Displaced View." In Feminisms in the Cinema, edited by Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. (p. 23)