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"My Favorite Documentary EVER", Should be required watching for all those "law and order" types in favor of capital punishment.

"Beware, It CAN happy to YOU", this is a must see documentary! investigative reporting at its best! this story assisted in setting Randall Adams, an innocent man, free. I can't help but think that Errol Morris also wanted to point out how our system has become a big game of wins and losses at any and all expense. unfortunately we have forgotten this lesson all too soon. speaking from experience. Get this documentary and beware. It could happen to you too!

"Awesome film and music", Stylistically incredible film. At the end of the film I was shocked but not surprised that things can get so twisted. The obviously guilty man is set free while the innocent man gets punished. By the way, the score by Philip Glass was the first taste I had of his music. I was hooked.

"The Thin Blue Line", Excellent. Best documentary I have seen. Very effective way of doing all the interviews just by getting comments without interviewer present asking questions. Don't have to get the interviewer's spin through the questions on the topic. Just the facts, ma'am.

"Early Errol Morris film still packs a wallop ", Errol Morris' documentary works are unique in that one often remembers the story telling and film making techniques employed as much as the subjects being examined. Here, for example, there's a moody Philip Glass score, artful slow-motion dramatizations of witness testimony, and- in what has evolved into a typical Morris trademark- inserts of props and old movie clips to underscore what interview subjects are saying. In one scene, for instance, we see a haunting image of a swinging watch on the end of a chain when one of the subjects discusses how the female police officer on the scene was ultimately hypnotized to help her recall details of the crime. To his credit, however, Mr. Morris never quite lets his showmanship, as memorable as it can often be, upstage the subject at hand. As a result, "The Thin Blue Line" ultimately resulted in an innocent man being set free.

Unfortunately, viewers won't learn that fact from this DVD, which includes just the movie and no further information about the wheels that were set in motion after the film was released. The only "extra" here is a 27-minute episode of Mr. Morris' "First Person" TV interview program, which features an interview with a man who is an expert on "extreme evil". The interview subject spends the show enthusiastically talking about lovely folks like the Boston Strangler and Hitler, then- in the best moment of the show- suddenly gets tongue tied and is at a loss for words when Morris asks him, "Now, what do you think there is about you that makes you so interested in heinous crimes and truly evil acts?" It's a hoot.

In any event, the TV episode is an interesting little addition to the DVD, and it does tie in somewhat to the theme of "The Thin Blue Line", but I would have preferred some specific, after-the-fact information about the movie itself rather than a sample of Mr. Morris' TV show.

Still, aficionados of true-crime stories and documentary film making shouldn't hesitate to pick up this DVD. More than fifteen years after the fact (yes, it's already been that long since this movie was in theaters), "The Thin Blue Line" remains powerful and engrossing, making you truly care about both the specific case in question and the larger criminal justice issues the case illuminates.

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"The Thin Blue Line", Years in the making, this film resulted in the re-opening of Randall's case, and his eventual exoneration. Spooky in the way only real-life stories can be, Morris lets the players speak for themselves, inexorably building the case for a gross miscarriage of justice. An impressive and important landmark in cinema, in that this film actually saved a man's life.

"White on White Crime", ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Why is this movie so shocking? Why are there so many people outraged over the wrongful conviction of an innocent man? Could it be because he's not black? The Thin Blue Line is a movie about the murder of a Dallas police officer in 1977, and the wrongful conviction of a white man (a drifter and outsider to Dallas) by white police officers, a white DA, and a white jury, who sentence the drifter to death for the killing. The basic message is that the Texas criminal justice system is hell, even if you're white.

I was born in Houston, TX about a year after the events in the movie took place. I moved to Southern California when I was 7. I'm so glad I did, because I might have turned out an absolute braindead hick like most everyone interviewed in this movie.

It's supremely frustrating to watch because you listen to these people and they're so sure of themselves, while they're talking complete bull****. The arresting officers are so blind to the facts, it's amazing... and the witnesses are complete wastes of humanity (when you watch the movie, you'll understand). The Vidor detective who befriends David Harris (the actual killer) shows no regret at all for his failure in getting David off the streets, a failure which ultimately leads to the death of David's last robbery victim. And the judge is absolutely delusional about his own incompetence/blindness/partiality. He sits there and claims to be impartial and carrying out justice, while basically presiding over a show trial in which he actively participates in convicting an innocent man and sentencing him to death. What's scarier is the fact that the Texas Appellate court, the highest court in Texas, sides 9-0 with the state, basically saying there is nothing wrong with how the trial judge acted. The Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the frikkin country, comes down 8-1 in favor of the appellant and reverses the case, and the bastard judge has the audacity to say "well, if you add up the votes, nine TX appellate judges and one Supreme Court justice for me vs. eight Supreme Court justices agin', I got 10 to 8 in favor of me, so I was right". What a bastard.

In an episode of Errol Morris' show 'First Person', he interviews a defense attorney who says something along the lines of "it's good if your client is innocent, it's better if you can prove it, but it's best if you know the judge." It's a sad truth about our criminal justice system, and watching The Thin Blue Line makes one think about how fair our system really is... or maybe Texas just sucks.

And I'm sure this type of "miscarriage of justice" is suffered everyday by black defendants, but who's making movies about that, thems just the way things is ain't it?

"A new approach....", ... to an old theme. I remember, in "Fury" (a movie half-a-century older) the phrase : "he's guilty, he's been convicted by a court of justice". Here, you can see a court of injustice who has a single motto : "he's suspect, so we have to make him legally guilty and condemn him; therefore, any testimony not fitting this purpose is not admissible". And, if reliable witnesses want to speak up, they will be held in contempt (although judge, D.A., and their paid witnesses did more than enough to deserve this contempt).
Just one thing keeps bothering me : although the United States Supreme Court granted Adams a stay, and on June 25, 1980 ruled 8 to 1 that Adams deserved a new trial, they should have ruled as well that those who fabricated the case be put in jail until a complete and unbiased inquiry has been performed. Since they did not, it only proves that if "Justice" is blind, it's because it's wanted this way..... Any court of justice in contempt of the law should be dismissed and put on row death until completion of the inquiry!

"great documentary, average transfer", no doubt this is a great documentary, and i agree with the other reviews, but MGM did yet another average print and packaging job. the print looks no different than the vhs version. no booklet inside. no commentaries. forth, i wish they would of put the follow-up half-hour documentary on this dvd. errol morris talks about how this originally was suppose to be a documentary on "doctor death", but after interviewing david harris, he realized randal adams was innocent. it also showed randal adams getting released from prison, more interviews with him and a clip of him being on johnny carson. that would of been a perfect combination for this package. instead, we get a short on the nature of evil, which isn't bad at all. this dvd package could of been a lot, lot better.

"A Brilliantly Fascinating Documentary...", Innocence and guilt are two opposite facets in regards to the consequences of an individual's actions in a specific incident. Usually, guilt and innocence are related to the justice system in the United States and the rest of the world. In the best interest of society this concept should be balanced fairly and justly without any consideration of human emotion or concern, or it could have a dire aftermath for people. The familiar blindfolded statue in the courts throughout the United States that holds a scale in one hand and a sword in the other symbolically demonstrates the fair blindness of true justice. Nonetheless, there are people who end up behind bars while society points them out as guilty despite innocence. The Thin Blue Line tells such a tale of a true incident where justice was put aside and a human decision was based on personal feelings while gains took precedence.

The documentary opens with a couple of shots of Dallas, Texas, where Randall Adams discloses why he came to town. This is also followed by David Harris providing the reason of how and why he came to Dallas as a sixteen year old. Both of them disclose how they met, which seems to be the only version that seems genuine in regards to the beginning of a dreadful police murder. The story goes into great detail to provide the contrasting elements, as Adams tells his version and the police officers on the case reveal their facts. In addition, Harris's version offers the audience a third and slightly different narration of the account of the police murder. Their stories are cleverly incorporated with a reenactment of the crime scene where Adams supposedly shot the police officer.

All of the interviews in the documentary are provided through first person monologues where individual's various importance disclose their connection with the case. These people are suspects, witnesses, judges, police officers, and lawyers. The audience can quietly sit and watch their reactions and facial expressions while they give their testimony. It is an intriguing approach, as Morris lets the audience use the same manipulation of facts by reading meaningless stimuli such as facial expressions and voices regardless of Adams innocence or guilty. Even one of the police officers points out Adams' emotionally blasé behavior in regards to the murder and suggests that he was guilty due to his lack of remorse. Later in the documentary, Adams' defense lawyer points out that an innocent would not show any remorse, because they have nothing to feel sorry about. Thus, in an intelligent way Morris turns the tables on the audience by using first person interviews with the camera.

There is a thorough investigation of what would the state gains to give the ruling guilty to Adams. There are several intriguing facts that are revealed such as the merciless prosecutor Douglas Moulder who has never lost a case, the competitive nature of a judge stating he won against the supreme court, and "the Killer Shrinks." There is also the questioning of the validity of testimonies provided at the court while the defense lawyer has been portrayed as an Eastern educated liberalist to a high seat of the Ku Klux Klan. This is not to mention Davis' criminal background and the reason he was in Dallas. It is a sad mess of injustice that emerges when viewing this film, however, hopefully this film could function as a tool to improve the legal system of this nation.

In an interview with judge Don Metcalfe, he restates how the the final argument by Douglas Moulder emotionally affected him, which stated, "the thin blue line of the police that separated the public from anarchy." It is with a grave sense of irony that this judge makes this statement, as he crossed the line when he heard it. The blind objectivity of justice seems to have heavily leaned on subjective reasoning for a large number of reasons, and it seems like Adams has been caught between personal desires and the legal system. Errol Morris does a fascinating job of directing this film where he captures human subjectivity at the core of humanity and its dire aftermath, which will linger within the viewer for many years to come.