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The film revolves around the murder of a police officer in Dallas Police, Robert W Wood. In that cases, a man named Randal Dale Adams was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime he did not commit. The film is a collection of evidences that prove Adams' innocence.
The Thin Blue Line is one of the films that helped make documentaries a viable entertainment option for arthouse moviegoers during the indie-film boom of the 1980s and '90s.
Furthering its genre irregularity, it employs no narration to guide the viewer, and each shot is carefully static and composed. Its central scene, even, is a fabricated element in what is largely a non-fiction film.
Morris was working in a dangerous middle ground between the traditional documentary and the fictional feature film, and his merging of various techniques paid off in a film of singular uniqueness in both its aesthetic approach and its real-world impact.
Accomplished but detached; you're pulled in, but you couldn't be blamed for resisting.
July 08, 2004
EmanuelLevy.Com
Arguably no other film of the 1980s, fiction or non-fiction, was as significant in blurring the boundaries between what's reel and real and in demonstrating the remarkable impact a movie could have.