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Solid Filmmaking. (2004-05-27)  Errol Morris is one of the few filmmakers who allows real people to speak their voices. One can tell when seeing his documentaries that the people speaking are talking from their hearts and minds, and not reading a screenplay or Q-card. In his movies, one can sense a level of rawness not found from other filmmakers. In 'The Thin Blue Line', Morris tries to aquit an innocent man of murdering a police officer. The story is told in a breath-taking fashion, with Morris going back to the scene of the crime and telling it from as many viewpoints as possible. When doing this, he also exposes the manipulative nature of people, showing how they will go to great lenghts to save themselves and make a quick dollar. The subject matter might bore some people after a while, but the last interview with the real killler at the end of the film is simply haunting and unforgettable.
Amazing (2004-05-17)  I watched this film in my film and Lit class, then over the weekend I rented it and watched it several more times, it is truely astounding, as a native Texan I have always mindlessly supported the death penalty, but this movie gave me my doubts. PS. David Harris is still on Death Row and is scheduled to be executed on 6/30/2004, crazy he's now 44
Not impossible (2004-04-08) Another reviewer claims that it is impossible to see this film and still support the death penalty. I guess I am refuting that "impossibility" to a possibility. I wholeheartedly support the death penalty AND this is my favorite documentary of all time. Yes, this film clearly shows through interviews (new testimonials?), visuals, re-enactments, and other evidence that the innocent CAN go to jail and even death row. It is a sad justice system, but it still doesn't dissuade me from the death penalty to those that are guilty and deservant of their crime. Now this film just needs to be re-released on DVD with an addendum to let know viewers know that Mr. Adams was exonerated. Most people may know already, but some viewers will watch this without knowing the case and the repercussion that this film has caused.
Profoundly moving (2004-03-09) It is impossible to see this movie and continue to support the death penalty. Innocent people do end up on Death Row, and this is a movie about a Dallas prosecutor who lied to the judge and jury to get a death sentence against an innocent man - and then fought like hell to keep him there. It was only because of the two million dollars spent making this movie that Randall Adams - an innocent man - walks free today. How many Randall Adams have been executed, in Texas and elsewhere - without anyone putting that amount of resources into researching their case? Everyone who thinks they support the death penalty needs to see this movie.
REQUIRED VIEWING (2003-11-08) Over the years I have always made this required viewing in my Introduction to Criminal Justice courses; it helps to open some eyes. Despite the inherent human fallibility of our criminal justice system, somehow we manage to maintain the preconceived notion that it could never convict an innocent person--at least not of murder. The Adams case ranks very high on the list of miscarriages of American "justice," and this documentary does an exceptional job of showing (1) that Adams was indeed innocent and yet convicted of murder and sentenced to death and (2) that this sort of case can easily happen in a system operated by inept, corrupt, or simply mistaken human beings. Adams very easily might have been executed (as was Roger Keith Coleman, another innocent man), and his case should be studied--and this film viewed--by anyone who supports the death penalty in a system run by people.
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