input: Text: Dirty Laundry Now and then, a documentary film comes along that makes us re-examine the rules that unofficially govern the genre: Can there be a middle ground between fiction and fact? Can a documentary use scripted scenes and yet remain ontologically authentic? How much can you stylize material before you alter the reality that you're striving, at least in theory, to capture? Unmade Beds, Nicholas Barker's "'real life' feature film," has proudly worn its mongrel status as a "directed" documentary of single life in the big city, employing, in the face of criticism, what amounts to a cackling-punk defiance. The movie tracks four aging New Yorkers--two men, two women--through their lonely dating rituals, in the process depicting a universe of lusty, coupled-up haves and downcast, excluded have-nots, all viewed Rear Window -style through rectangular openings in the massive apartment houses in which they reside. This is not cinema vérité, and nothing has been left to chance. The director selected his four subjects from many hundreds of potential candidates, followed them around for months, and then scripted their monologues and dialogues to reflect what he says he saw. Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths." Spurned by U.S. distributors,
  Question: What is the author's strongest critique of Barker's directorial style?
  
   (A) The drafted nature of Barker's characters' speech is inconsistent with his claims of the film being categorized as a documentary
   (B) The film does not include enough monologues from each of the four characters to be considered a documentary, and instead relies predominantly on voice-over narration
   (C) Barker attempts to capitalize on western society's simultaneous intrigue and revulsion with vile characters who live at the margins
   (D) Barker's juxtaposition of the sympathetic with the distasteful does not match up with the actual lived realities of the four main characters featured in the film
  Answer:
output: The drafted nature of Barker's characters' speech is inconsistent with his claims of the film being categorized as a documentary