I would like to take issue with comments on O'Rourke's film - Good Woman of Bangkok. I was in Australia last November for a large gathering of documentary filmmakers, critics,theorists, etc..O'Rourke was a panelist for one of the sessions and a crowd of about five hundred people came to listen to him. He presented a short but well formulated paper about the documentary film and the frustrations which he felt with the genre. He said that he really was trying to push at the limits of autobiography-which he described as a sophisticated fictional form-and he couldn't understand why critics of the film hadn't noticed the changes which he, as videomaker and filmmaker, underwent as the film progressed. I believe that the film is a self-conscious explora- tion of male consciousness, precisely exploring the boundaries of male fantasy even as the filmmaker falls prey to that which he is critiquing. The film explores voyeurism and lays it bare and in so doing it pushes at the limits of the image, asking questions about truth and concluding that the image can never overcome the constraints of fiction which I don't believe should be confused with illusion.Moreto come.ron burnett