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Some scholars believe that by calling the certainty of events surrounding the murder case into question, Morris positions the film as a postmodern text.

Referencing theorist Fredric Jameson's framework, film critic Linda Williams refers to documentaries that seek only to reveal the past as supporting the notion of an “ intensified nostalgia for a past that is already lost .” Conversely, " The Thin Blue Line " suggests Adams ' innocence by clouding a previously established history.