After watching the rest of “Gates of Heaven” and “The Thin Blue Line” I don’t understand what all the fuss about Morris is.\u00c2\u00a0 GOH was mildly entertaining and touching in its portrayal of peoples’ love for their pets.\u00c2\u00a0 TTBL had value in that it may have released an innocent man from death row.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course that has tremendous value.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the good I see in Morris.\u00c2\u00a0 However, what I don’t recognize is his greatness.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean this with the utmost respect for his efforts and for Dr. Campbell’s decision to include him in the course.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0I have noticed in both GOH and most strikingly in TTBL the way in which Morris uses the juxtaposition of red and white.\u00c2\u00a0 In the beginning of TTBL, we see the big ball in Dallas with all the white lights.\u00c2\u00a0 All around are blinking red lights.\u00c2\u00a0 If the red lights symbolize Hell, then the white lights must symbolize Heaven.\u00c2\u00a0 David Harrris is shown wearing his prision-orange jumpsuit (a shade of red), whereas Adams is shown wearing all white.\u00c2\u00a0 The patrol car depicted in the re-enactment is white with its bright red lisghts screaming.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if Morris did this intentionally or not.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m tempted to say yes since Dr. C. mentioned the blinking red lights being representative of Hell.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally, I took the binary opposition and ran with it.\u00c2\u00a0 I think after all, Morris just might be more concerned with making a connection to humanity than in making a really “good” film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After watching the rest of “Gates of Heaven” and “The Thin Blue Line” I don’t understand what all the fuss about Morris is.\u00c2\u00a0 GOH was mildly entertaining and touching in its portrayal of peoples’ love for their pets.\u00c2\u00a0 TTBL had value in that it may have released an innocent man from death row.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}