Op-Docs: The Umbrella Man (2011)
Season 1, Episode 3
8/10
A lovable short!
25 May 2016
This is a short documentary whose simplicity is its best characteristic. Within six minutes, Errol Morris exposes a particular point of view -maybe his own- about how simple common life is. By introducing different theories around the JFK assassination, and especially the "umbrella man" case, neither a story nor a fact is presented. Something more interesting -and charming, one can say- is shown: that conspiracy speculations are not less absurd than simple explanations. And the latter are, maybe, more persuasive.

Perhaps behind a weird act occurred during an extraordinary event -like one of the most commented murders in the 21st Century history- there is no more than a nice and ordinary justification. Is that explanation true? We don't know, but we can acknowledge that, at least, it is not less plausible than a conspiracy.
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