Spike Lee extensively uses this device in his films-including his debut film, She's Gotta Have It-to make the viewer wonder if she or he is watching a fiction film or a documentary.

A) split screen
B) direct address
C) amateur actors
D) voice-over

Fiction Film

A movie that tells a scripted, fictional narrative with actors, as opposed to documentaries, which depict real events and people.

Direct Address

An unusual presentation of dialogue in which a character in a film breaks the so-called fourth wall (separating the fictional characters from the film spectator) in order to speak directly to the movie audience.

Documentary

A term coined by John Grierson in the 1920s to describe formally structured nonfiction films. Documentary has come to refer to any film that is not by design or definition fictional.