1981 · documentary
Vernon, Florida
Directed by Errol Morris55m1981
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.
Our read: Vernon, Florida (1981) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle documentary, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
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