Wiseman's aesthetic falls squarely in the "direct cinema" tradition of documentary filmmaking, which emphasizes continued filming, as unobtrusively as possible, of human conversation and the routines of everyday life, with no music, no interviews, no voice-over narration, and no overt attempt to interpret or explain the events unfolding before the camera.
Wiseman calls his films "reality-fictions," reflecting his tight thematic structuring of the raw footage in the editing process. Eschewing "leading characters," Wiseman skillfully interweaves many small stories to provide contrast and thematic complexity.
Law and Order (1969) was filmed in Kansas City, Missouri. Here, Wiseman cast his gaze on the daily routine of police work in the Kansas City police department. Most of the sequences were filmed in the black district of the city. Examples of police brutality and insensitivity were juxtaposed with other examples of sympathetic patrol officers attempting to assist citizens with a variety of minor, and Wiseman sometimes humorous, problems. On the whole, however, police behavior was depicted as symptomatic of deeper social crisis, including racism, poverty, and the resultant pervasive violence in the inner city.
-Hal Himmelstein
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