thin blue line
To be honest, when the music at the beginning came out, it gave people a feeling that the storm was about to come. Then the setting of the documentary is very clever. Two people tell their stories at the same time. At first, people feel that they are two parallel lines, but when the story progresses to a stage, you suddenly find that the two stories are strung together like this. feel. After that, more and more people appeared, and the main body and details of the whole event were gradually enriched.
This documentary gave me a feeling that he kept switching perspectives, everyone told the story from his own point of view, and some of the remarks even conflicted with each other. In this way, it seems that the description and judgment of the event are objective, but I also feel that the director is simultaneously making us think through the narrative of the characters and guiding us to discover the truth of the event. As far as choosing such a conflicting event, I feel that the shooting method is very similar to that of a direct film, but this documentary is not simply recording the event itself. I think he interviews and asks the characters, although the person who asked the question did not. Appeared on the camera, and did not edit the problem into the film. It is only in the interview with David at the end of the film that the voice of the questioner finally comes to the audience.
At the same time, the film constantly uses opposing testimony to tell the audience that there may be doubts in the case, but this is for the audience to judge by themselves. Some people may believe the police and Mrs. Miller's words so much that they directly judge Adams as the murderer. But there should still be many people who can know through this film that the real murderer should be David.
It was also mentioned in class that this film uses a rehearsal method to restore the scene at the time of the incident. Combined with the elaboration of the characters, I personally think that this shooting method is actually quite suitable for explaining the process of an event and exposing an event. the truth. Otherwise, it will not be frequently used in some legal programs on TV, or in some TV programs that tell history. I feel that it has its value.
The film is also interspersed with news reports from newspapers and photos of scenes that look like physical evidence, as well as several drawings depicting courtroom scenes. It makes me feel that this method is very similar to some new forms of documentaries mentioned in class, and some news reports are interspersed in them.
I think the advantage of this method of acting is that it allows the audience to understand the unfolding of the whole event step by step very intuitively, and follow the film to solve the mystery in their hearts little by little. And with the development of the case investigation, the original wrong part of the replay will be replayed and corrected. However, this type of film also has a less obvious disadvantage. I personally think that if there are too many talking characters in the film, the audience will be very prone to face blindness when watching it. I just watched it for 20 minutes and I feel like I don't know who is who...
Adams keeps repeating his (her) crazy words in the film. As a suspect identified by the police, he uses his own logic to refute the words of those who want him to plead guilty and sentence him to death. In these In the rebuttal, we can indeed feel that the police and some so-called witnesses have doubts and problems in their testimony and thoughts, and it is not possible to directly judge Adams to be guilty unilaterally.
And when I read it, I always felt that the logic of the magistrate seemed to contradict me in some places. It may also be because I don't know the laws of the United States, but I think adding the affirmative and negative votes of the two judgments together is true. was not so convincing, and I even began to doubt the professionalism of that judge.
In the film, the scene of the rotating and flickering of the police lights has been repeated all the time. I think this picture is very alert, and there is a feeling of creating a tense atmosphere
But "The Thin Blue Line" still makes me feel a little more interesting than the documentaries I watched before, probably because it shows a process of solving a case. As long as it uses suspense and doubts, it can attract your thinking and make you concentrate. The attention continued.
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