When I began reading the Introduction to Documentary by Bill Nicholas, I really understood his perspective on film making. “Reflexive documentaries also tackle issues posted by realism as a style. Realism seems to provide unproblematic access to the world ; it takes form as psychological, and emotional realism through techniques of evidentiary or continuity editing, character’s development, and narrative structure. Reflexive documentaries challenge these techniques and conventions.”(195) This quote reveals to the audience that in a reflexive documentary the film maker is in front of the camera providing a narrative in the story that is being presented. This makes the issue or problem more obvious the viewers. This method reminds me of the Tongues Untied. The film maker was involved in the film so much, you clearly felt the burden that the gay black community carried in that time period. At some point in the film, the film maker started zooming into the men’s faces, they were chanting; “from brother to brother” and “we’re just a ****” Marlon Riggs made it clear that the gay black community was confronting racism, homophobia and marginalization. It had a pathos effect on the viewers emotions. Riggs used his personal experiences to influence the emotions of the society by saying that they are being labeled but they are still parents, children of others, brothers, sisters, cousins of, they are just human beings. Riggs definitely made me sympathize this community because I saw it as we are all humans with the right to express our feelings in a respectful manner. I definitely agree with Bill Nicholas. In addition this film proves that it was a success.