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A profile of one of America's most inventive documentary filmmakers. Morris gained national attention with the The Thin Blue Line in 1988, a "non-fiction noir" which detailed the wrongful arrest and conviction of a man accused of killing a Dallas policeman.

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  • jmc... Are you insane??? he is perhaps the most intresting documentary maker there is today. And what has hes voice to do with anything???

  • ...how it affects them and so on. Morris' films deal with larger issues than their immediate subjects but in a way where the message is channeled through the particular people Morris hones in on and studies; "Gates of Heaven" deals with the stifling of emotions and aspirations in modern society and how we treat the topic of death. There is a real point to the way Morris presents his material which I've been highlighting again and again, but instead of arguing it you've...

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  • The Thin Blue Line: Think all delusional people are in hospitals & locked in psych wards? They're in positions of authority & trust: they're lawyers, judges, & cops. They're criminals. & They work like the dickens to ensure your view of the world will always be in error.

    The purpose of authority, from the President to the night-shift desk sergeant, is to invalidate your personal experience & convince you they know best.

  • A truly remarkable documentary. I have watched it many times and will in the future. God bless Randall Adams.

  • @wushumon88 Now you're talking my language... perhaps a glass of sherry after we get wrecked among the commoners... Hey-ho, old bean!

  • @pilkingtonphil ha ha ha. We should go drinking some time...have a pint, or two

  • @wushumon88 Well, higgldy-piggledy, chap, I've been caught out - and here's me thinking I was cruising incognito among the peasants.

    Jolly good, call, jolly good!

  • @pilkingtonphil wow you are a elite high class gentleman, i say good sir, did u study in Oxford?

  • @JDznz The soundtrack to The Hours was also by Philip Glass and used some of the same themes—it sounds similar. 

  • Harris is a sociopath, creepy fuck. Still, I don't belief in capital punishment.

  • its actually from his documentary "the Fog of War" if I am not mistaken

  • batman.?

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