Collected Data

"We’re not tape recorders. You know, we’re sort of like meat in a can, observing the world."

Isaac Butler interviews Errol Morris;

However you want to describe it: the whodunit; the mystery of what really happened; the mystery of personality; of who people really, really are is powerfully represented when you have a crime standing in back of all of it. It’s a way of dramatizing really significant issues: How we know what we know? How have we come to the belief that we have? Is justice served by the various mechanisms in our society? Is the law just? And on and on and on and on and on.


What Errol Morris Thinks of Making a Murderer