talking head

We sometimes speak to each other, to our friends, and sometimes hear our sentiments echoed or elaborated by reporters, commentators or talking heads on TV.

Unlike most celebrity portraits, “In Whose Name?” has no glossy packaging, no talking heads and, most unusually, no input from its subject.

It’s not exactly a clever term, but then again, most of the turns of phrases that drop like rotten apples from the slack jaws of far-right talking heads aren’t stickers.

As one talking head in the documentary notes, multiple perspectives are necessary in any complicated conversation.

Hargitay doesn’t flit between talking heads at warp speed to feed the viewer information, or overly rely on archival footage and old photos to make the film feel like a glorified Wikipedia deep dive.