Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: Morris is familiar as the Oscar-winning director of haunting, enigmati

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Morris is familiar as the Oscar-winning director of haunting, enigmatic documentary feature films. Yet running through all of Morris’ movies as an obsessive leitmotif, are questions, about the misleading nature of visual representation, the ethical shadows lurking in the margins of the picture frame or the movie still, the myriad ways in which we interpret images selectively to confirm our pre-existing biases.

Virtually never seen on-camera, Morris as an interviewer typically adopts an attitude that suggests a film noir detective or forensic scientist with a PhD in philosophy. He’s an erudite gumshoe, weighing the facts , now and then interjecting a wisecracking observation, always more intent on exposing his subjects’ (and the audience’s) blind spots than on arriving at comforting conclusions. Moral ambiguity
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Statistics : Posted by samarpan.g28 • on 11 Apr 2018, 20:24 • Replies 3 • Views 5158

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