February 13, 2007

The Thin Blue Line

I found it very easy to be captivated by The Thin Blue Line - the re-enactments, photos and interviews carry this documentary along quite smoothly. The editing pulls viewers at an almost set, steadylike pace until you realize you have yourself taken a keen interest int the story and are in fact convinced that Harris is guilty. The shots of different clocks conveyed a sense of time passing, and yet you couldn't help but feel that it was some sort of game, a large play on the words of two stories that start out quite similar but each themselves take drastic turns. Combined with the music that Glass provides, the film takes on an incredibly eerie feeling, adding to the already building mystery and suspense of whose story is truth and whose is fiction.

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