Does Justice Hold a Camera?

The Thin Blue Line REALLY worked me into a frenzy.  I left the screening and I was early for a meeting I had and I couldn’t stop going on about the film until our meeting was about to start.  The absolute cruelty and utter waste of human life was just so in your face while at the same time I didn’t feel like Errol Morris was passing any judgement at all.  Perhaps that was what was so frustrating.  It was like watching an accident that you can’t stop.  Listening to people like that Mrs. Miller woman who “loved watching detective movies” oh my God I swear it could’ve been scripted how well that woman incriminated herself.  If this had been a fictional, mockumentary I would have been laughing hysterically at the ridiculous ways in which the system is violated.  But then, I remind myself that a real man is rotting away in prison because of the inequities of justice and the stupid, selfish people who abuse the system for their own gain.  And Errol Morris is just watching this happen.  He’s just a man with a camera… it just seems so wrong.  But honestly, I don’t see his judgement or condemnation anywhere.