for @bwdr.bsky.social i wrote about errol morris’s the thin blue line as documentary noir and a pretty terrifying illustration of an invented truth www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/14/t... - ThreadSky

petesegall.bsky.social • 125 days ago

for @bwdr.bsky.social i wrote about errol morris’s the thin blue line as documentary noir and a pretty terrifying illustration of an invented truth

https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/14/the-thin-blue-line-1988/

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davidjroth.bsky.social•125 days ago

Whoa hell yeah man

petesegall.bsky.social•125 days ago

did i get the dallas county line in you’re damn right i did

davidjroth.bsky.social•125 days ago

"Would you say that someone reading this searching re-examination of a seminal film text was a pretty lucky person?" [janky tape sounds]

jehawks.bsky.social•125 days ago

Me humming affirmative in the background

jehawks.bsky.social•125 days ago

I always liked in that scene that David Harris’ speaking voice is more pleasant to the ear. Errol isn’t exactly fun to listen to. And yet, one of those people is true evil, and it’s not Errol. Another false truth.

petesegall.bsky.social•125 days ago

“heard of the proverbial freelancer?”

csmcgowan.bsky.social•125 days ago

This is great. I really like how the prose mirrors the movie's dense efficiency.

petesegall.bsky.social•125 days ago

thank you! (dense efficiency is a perfect way to describe it. i was stunned at how quickly it moves *so much* when i watched it again)

jehawks.bsky.social•125 days ago

I’ve always had this thought since seeing this in college at film school (in Dallas no less!) but I never had the words to manifest it until reading this. The people the DA got to back little David Harris’ story are absolute losers. Just the most useless people society has perfectly created.

johnnykilloran.bsky.social•125 days ago

certainly not the film's most important effect on culture but it nonetheless also deserves recognition as the basis for the most pitch-perfect Documentary Now! episode

barcodetontos.wanderingthe.land•125 days ago

Came here to say this! It's hilarious and extremely well-done. They even used the same camera lenses Morris used in "Thin Blue Line."

jeremymdoan.info•125 days ago

definitely gonna pin this to read later

petesegall.bsky.social•125 days ago

thanks to @carriecourogen.bsky.social and chad penman for their editorial wisdom and @ohhhaeee.bsky.social for the awesome randall dale adams picture

petesegall.bsky.social•125 days ago

it’s a film i’ve admired since forever and i’m really grateful to have had a chance to contemplate it outside of weird and poorly timed jokes with @davidjroth.bsky.social

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