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After a stint of cello study in France, he talked his way into the Princeton graduate philosophy seminar of Thomas Kuhn, an icon of postmodernism, the man who coined the term “paradigm shift.” It...
- Ron Rosenbaum
At the time, Morris had been making a living as a private investigator for a well-known private detective agency that specialized in Wall Street cases. Bringing together his talents as an investigator and his obsessions with murder, narration, and epistemology, Morris went to work on the case in earnest.
Having originally stumbled upon the subject, Morris chose to make the documentary after “he became personally persuaded of the convicted man’s innocence” (Curry 157). In Morris’ presentation of the case, the director refutes the original verdict and persuades audiences that Adams is innocent.
Mar 27, 2015 · That was the period of time when I became a private detective, because I needed to make a living. Tell me about that. I had a friend who was a private detective, and he was hired by...
- Movie Critic
Jul 1, 2015 · On Grigson’s suggestion, Morris began interviewing Texas inmates, and became convinced that Adams was telling the truth when he said he wasn’t the shooter. The resulting film from the investigation, The Thin Blue Line, was a quantum leap forward in style and substance for Morris.
- Nathan Cone
Jan 27, 2016 · Morris made The Thin Blue Line out of two compulsions: He was, he says, “driven to find out what happened. And I was driven to get Randall Adams out of prison.” The remarkable documentary...
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Mar 25, 2015 · In Dallas, orange became the new red as criminals manipulated the law to gain their freedom and the justice system sent an innocent man to death row. Despite his general disdain for vérité filmmaking, Morris, somewhat surprisingly, claims a strong affinity with one of its masters: Frederick Wiseman.
