“Their point is not really to tell us things about the world so much as to change our ways of seeing it: throwing sudden light; showing up what is beneath the surface as if in an x-ray; making the familiar strange, stupid, often hideous.” Lorna Finlayson on the films of Frederick Wiseman:
The first Frederick Wiseman film I saw, and the one that remains my favorite so far (Wiseman made a lot of films, and I have yet to see more than a fraction of them), was his seventh: Juvenile Court.
