Thin Blue Line Response

This documentary was very different in style compared to the other’s I’ve watched for this class. It was mostly interview based and driven. The style and content was not as exciting as Cameraperson or Grizzly Man. There was a decent amount of back and forth about who actually murdered woods and who didn’t. There was back in forth about who was driving the car or who was in the side seat. It related to the style of he said she said. It was interesting to see Adams and Harris speak in the film and I thought it was great that the film was able to include that footage. The style related more towards the documentaries I’ve watched in history class back in middle school. But, obviously the topic was more interesting than the topics those would have been. I found it unusual that they were so distraught and baffled by the question of who the killer was that shot officer Woods and that there was an entire documentary made about this one case. I found this interesting because I constantly hear about shootings and murders and maybe there are certain cases where the murderer isn’t identified, but I do not see anyone dedicating an entire documentary to a case like those. I think there is a huge cultural difference nowadays versus in the past about shootings/ murders and especially those of the death of police officers and I think this documentary shows that because it was made a long long time ago so the difference was obvious.

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