An Injury to One (2002)

AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state. Much of the extant evidence is inscribed upon the landscape of Butte and its surroundings. Thus, a connection is drawn between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.Butte's history was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's depths. War profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to the safety of its employees (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little's arrival. "The agitator" found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth.In August 1917, Little was abducted by still-unknown assailants who hung him from a railroad bridge. Pinned to his chest was a note that read 3'-7'-77", dimensions of a Montana grave. Eight thousand people attended his funeral, the largest in Butte's history.The murder provides AN INJURY TO ONE with a taut, suspenseful narrative, but it isn't the only story. Butte's history is bound with the entire history of the American left, the rise of McCarthyism, the destruction of the environment, and even the birth of the detective novel. Former Pinkerton detective Dashiell Hammett was rumored to have been involved in the murder, and later depicted it in Red Harvest. 學做紀錄片後看了一堆無評分的電影，這部終於成功把我催眠。機譯了個加利西亞文字幕來看。導演對文本、資料、視頻等東西的組織能力極強，即便是身處遙遠的外界，依然感受到所呈現事件——隱蔽的暗殺、鎮壓、對工人的迫害、環境破壞——的可怕和不安。這部實驗紀錄片也提供了一種思路：回顧往事並非只有尋找過去動態映像這唯一思路。结构上巧妙，五首无人声的歌谣歌词中蕴含时间线，重复图像结合说明使得观众逐渐填满信息，从具体地点中的历史事件引发对众多问题的思考。导演是