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MORE MORE MORRIS

Today, the film was a continued plow through Errol Morris interviews on his teevee show (2000) First Person.

I met a guy who was pen pals with Ted Koczinsky, the Unabomber.

An ex-spy who, it turned out mid interview, was the guy who led the successful evacuation of diplomats from Iran and became a film "Argo".

A woman who has a business of cleanup of messy crime scenes, suicides, or people who die alone. It was, perhaps, the most interesting and compassionate.

A forensic psychologist specializing in evil who has a set of protocols for diagnosing such mental diseases and the potential for treatment of same.

A mob lawyer who I have seen before and is fascinating with great "war stories" (that's him in the photo).

And a guy who set himself up to live on teevee, video cam, a "show called WeLiveInPublic. I used to watch a guy who did this. This was from the inside out. He is nuts.

Morris is a master interviewer. He is able to show most of these people ending up their interviews with deep personal reflections which catch them off guard in such a way you can see them looking inward. Not always with happy results. Sometimes though, with great personal satisfaction and wry amusement at themselves which is sort of the way Morris sees himself.

These are great pieces and I will be glad to see the end of it tomorrow.

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