Review of Opération lune

The mockumentary The Dark side of the Moon was first screened by SBS TV in Australia on April 1, 2003. And yes, some of the segments were over-the-top, but I think this was done deliberately to discredit the Moon landing hoax. Unfortunately, despite the added clue of the screening date here, many people still believed it was a real revelation that the Moon landing had been faked. Although I fully share sarastro7's lament that there are so many people who do not believe the Moon landings really happened, and I agree that it is a pity that the documentary gave credence to the conspiracy peddlers, I still think it is an exceptionally clever production. The fact that viewers found it hard to sort out the facts from the fabrications, indeed even wonder if it was a US government counter-hoax, underscores William Karel's point. I only saw it once, but as I understand it, the non-actor interviewees, including Donald Rumsfeld, were not actually part of the farce. If viewers listen carefully, the real key players interviewed do not refer specifically to the Apollo 11 mission in their comments denying it happened. Rather, the documentary maker inserted clips of real interviews with these personages, but in most cases they were speaking about unrelated matters. The viewer merely draws inference from the words and clips from the context of the documentary. The key players were then asked for their consent to include the clips, and the end segment captures their surprised reaction.