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"Operational features to encode from Morris: - **Interview as evidence, not commentary.** The Interrotron device exists so subjects look directly at the camera while talking; Morris treats the interview as the primary forensic instrument, not as a way to gather opinion. Interviews are extracted, contradictions are surfaced, and the narrator's role is to mark where accounts do not align. - **Contradiction as structure.** *The Thin Blue Line* is built around incompatible eyewitness accounts (the famous floating-milkshake reenactment exists to show *how* their accounts diverge, not what "really happened"). The documentary doesn't resolve contradictions by fiat; it lays them down beside each other. - **Withholding to build participation.** Morris talks about creating "the illusion that they are speaking directly to" the audience, an "inclusive experience" where the viewer is positioned as a "