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Joining Peter Nicks’ “The Force” in the emerging sub-genre of “documentaries about police reform that illustrate the utter futility of reforming the police,” Deirdre Fishel’s “Women in Blue” takes viewers deep inside the Minneapolis Police Department during the tumultuous years leading up to the murder of George Floyd. Like Nicks, Fishel was drawn to her subject because of the hope represented by a progressive chief of police; in this case Janée Harteau, the first woman to head the Mpd in its long history (and an openly gay Native American woman at that).
Unlike Nicks, however, Fishel embeds herself behind the blue wall of silence with a particular hypothesis — female leadership might help detoxify the culture of violence that churns inside America’s police departments — and the sheer whiteness of that approach blinds her to a fact that would’ve become even more obvious had she just kept filming for...
Unlike Nicks, however, Fishel embeds herself behind the blue wall of silence with a particular hypothesis — female leadership might help detoxify the culture of violence that churns inside America’s police departments — and the sheer whiteness of that approach blinds her to a fact that would’ve become even more obvious had she just kept filming for...
- 6/17/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Joining Peter Nicks’ “The Force” in the emerging sub-genre of “documentaries about police reform that illustrate the utter futility of reforming the police,” Deirdre Fishel’s “Women in Blue” takes viewers deep inside the Minneapolis Police Department during the tumultuous years leading up to the murder of George Floyd. Like Nicks, Fishel was drawn to her subject because of the hope represented by a progressive chief of police; in this case Janée Harteau, the first woman to head the Mpd in its long history (and an openly gay Native American woman at that).
Unlike Nicks, however, Fishel embeds herself behind the blue wall of silence with a particular hypothesis — female leadership might help detoxify the culture of violence that churns inside America’s police departments — and the sheer whiteness of that approach blinds her to a fact that would’ve become even more obvious had she just kept filming for...
Unlike Nicks, however, Fishel embeds herself behind the blue wall of silence with a particular hypothesis — female leadership might help detoxify the culture of violence that churns inside America’s police departments — and the sheer whiteness of that approach blinds her to a fact that would’ve become even more obvious had she just kept filming for...
- 6/17/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Thompson on Hollywood
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