(continuation, sorry, but I forgot to scroll) who focus upon questions of epistemology and the truth carrying capacity of the text, or psychoanalysts who focus either upon the supposed intentions of the filmmaker or the hidden meanings of the text/dream either for the artist (Freud) or the spectator (Lacan). What the soap opera and the soapumentary obviously share is an emotional oversaturation that intrigues some people and makes others uncomfortable, but where they differ, it seems to me, is that one involves a willing suspension of disbelief (although I'm willing to admit that some, perhaps many, soap opera viewers frequently confuse or combine fiction and "real life") and the other involves a strong belief in the actual existence of the people who appear in the soapumentary, until proven otherwise. Perhaps its just a matter of direction, one starts out with disbelief and moves towards a suspension of that disbelief, and the other starts out with belief and sometimes moves towards disbelief. Hap Kindem.