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The Thin Blue Line By Errol Morris

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In The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris use of reenactments based on eyewitness stories the night Robert Wood was murdered ultimately leaves the audience sorting through what is true account of what happened that night. Subsequently, the subjects who look directly into the camera cinéma vérité interviews that are in medium shot, eye level shots give a confessional attribute that might leads the audience to compare which subjects are telling the truth. As a result, with Errol Morris persisted interviews with David Harris, eventually a videotaped confession is obtained that releases Randall Adams from death row. Personally, allowing myself to see all the interviews of subjects telling the truth or giving false statements in a non-fictional film is

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