I haven’t got a lot to say, so I’m just going to think about The Thin Blue Line for a few moments before class.
The most interesting thing, for me, was the way that Morris shows the policeman being shot again and again and again, he shows everyone’s story. That’s exactly what happens in a courtroom, I guess, and in the mind of a prisoner.
It’s simply amazing how just talking to those people, showing us two hours of monologue, was worth weeks of failure in the courts. Justice by documentary.
Isn’t the lying lady really freakin’ weird? The way she ratted on the innocent man for money, then had the guts to look at the camera and say “oh, I always wanted to be a detective” etc. etc… crazy. Morris definately shoots her without mercy. All her nasty makeup and mannerisms seem to shout right through the screen.
It’s too bad we never got to see the partner of the police officer who got shot. I suppose she wouldn’t want to talk to the documentary because she would be guilty of not backing her partner as she should have.