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Slowly, the color drains out of the image and the green frontier becomes a forbidding, black-and-white expanse.
Everything that happens in the film is documented,she toldmy colleague Rachel Handler last year.
Holland is a humanist not a sadist, so she doesnt dwell on these actions.
But she also doesnt flinch from letting us witness such horrors amid the intimate urgency of her filmmaking.
Her camera is at home among the downtrodden as well as those who tread on them.
She understands the impassioned agitator as well as the impotent observer.
Green Borderis separated into multiple chapters, each offering a different point of view.
We see the indoctrination he and others receive from their superiors.
The directors vision is not entirely without hope, though its a rather bleak kind of hope.
But Julia is not the norm.
Its a particularly savvy move on Hollands part.
