I found this nifty little video with interview of Errol Morris interspersed throughout clips of the film. Alas, as I’m posting this, I’m not sure if it’s any good as I’m in the Combs computer lab, and there are several other people working here with me so I don’t want to turn the sound on and disturb them. Image wise, I think it’s an interesting idea, to pair Morris with arguably his most epistemological, and in some ways, I would argue, personal, films. Anyway, I promise to watch this clip with the sound on later tonight or early tomorrow morning when I’ll be able to use a computer with sound.
EDIT: Wow this clip is out of sync. Its still interesting to listen to Morris’ thoughts interspersed throughout the movie, but it does require some imagination to hear Randall Adams’ voice coming from Morris’ body.
In the meantime, I’ve been thinking a lot about the conclusion to The Thin Blue Line. Dr. Campbell mentioned that Morris had spent some time doing work as a private investigator, which surprised me until I heard his interview with David Harris. Morris would ask a question, Harris would reply with a response that seemed to insulate he had dome SOMETHING, was much more implicated in the murder than he had told the police, and I just wanted to yell, “YOU DID IT! TELL ME YOU DID IT! I KNOW YOU DID IT!” and was waiting for Morris to make a similar comment. But he didn’t; instead, he followed up with a slightly related, but seemingly innocuous question. It was maddening for me. But in the end, Morris got what amounts to a confession, which I suppose makes him a better integrator than me. I wonder also if this is a technique used by investigators and detectives, to talk around the subject for so long you aggravate the criminal into confessing, after all, they need to tell someone (at least this is what Chuck Palahniuk says in his novel Haunted).