crime and perception

from the NYTimes article about filmmaker, Errol Morris, Of Crime and Perception at Abu Ghraib

“I may focus your attention on a small and perhaps irrelevant detail, which I think is not so irrelevant,” he said. “But there’s always an imposition of point of view in anything. There’s this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.”

“The only thing I do that’s different from other people is I call attention to the fact that I have a point of view,” he continued. “I call attention to the fact that how we see, what we see, is constructed, and that looking at how it’s constructed is often a useful exercise.

“I think people want the appearance of truth,” he said. “They don’t necessarily want the truth.”

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