The ugly truth about truth, according to Errol Morris
If your goal is to talk to another human being and hear the truth, Errol Morris says you're going to be disappointed. The filmmaker explains why he broke the rules of documentary and why sometimes...
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ERROL MORRIS, Director: If your goal is to talk to another human being to hear the truth-- and I don't want to depress you -- you're going to be sadly disappointed.I'm very proud of this film I made, now close to 30 years ago, "The Thin Blue Line."An innocent man in prison who had been sentenced to death for the murder of a Dallas policeofficer, Robert Wood, I was able to prove that this was a terrible miscarriage of justice.He didn't do it.One of the central pieces of evidence came out in interviews.So, the chief prosecution witness at this capital murder trial, out of nowhere, tellsme that she had failed to pick out the defendant in a police lineup, forgetting that she hadtestified to the exact opposite.The reen...
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ERROL MORRIS, Director: If your goal is to talk to another human being to hear the truth-- and I don't want to depress you -- you're going to be sadly disappointed.I'm very proud of this film I made, now close to 30 years ago, "The Thin Blue Line."An innocent man in prison who had been sentenced to death for the murder of a Dallas policeofficer, Robert Wood, I was able to prove that this was a terrible miscarriage of justice.He didn't do it.One of the central pieces of evidence came out in interviews.So, the chief prosecution witness at this capital murder trial, out of nowhere, tellsme that she had failed to pick out the defendant in a police lineup, forgetting that she hadtestified to the exact opposite.The reen...
