he was attempting to understand them and to offer solidarity.
restored the trust between audience and film makers which other experiences of the medium had destroyed.
a complicity which was half-consciously aware of the fine line between observation and silence, and which nonetheless resolutely begged for self-understanding and integrity, constructing almost secretly a complicated web of significant, ambivalent observations which, given a critically-minded audience, was interpreted as a critical picture of reality. It was a tacit agreement ...

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