Alabama’s solution is one of the most powerful opponents of the American prison system that I have ever seen. It is directed by Andrew Jarry (“Picking Friedmans”, “The Jinx”) and Charlotte Kaufman, the film is a picture of an interior life that is a fist worth exciting. It is an investigative documentary film, which was filmed over five years, and many of it is in the correctional facility on Easter and around it in southeast Alabama. It reveals the culture of sacred chaos. The way the Alabama solution reveals this, the exfoliation of the regular covering layers becomes exciting like the crimes that revolve around it.
The film is followed in incendiary footsteps of documentaries such as “13th” from Ava Duvernay, Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack “The Farm: Angola, Usa” and Stanley Nelson “Attica”, based on their visions. It infiltrates the prison world with ingenuity, and emotional guidance, has become possible (in this case) with technology. The Supreme Court’s decision decided that the guards could prevent journalists from entering prisons as a way to protect safety and security. This means that anything can continue behind bars, and will not be seen. It is easier to report a war zone more than prison. But Jarecki and Kaufman penetrate the walls of secrecy.
They first came to Easter, in 2019, when it seemed positive occasion. They were there to record a religious revival, with the barbecue, which was held in the prison square. But it turned out that this was a glorious public relations trick. While they were there, many prisoners took them aside and told them stories about beating, stabbing and human circumstances.
Those who spend time have always found ways to get things (drugs, money, etc.), even when the prison or law is violated. In “The Alabama Solution”, we see the men imprisoned on Easter communicating with the outside world using smuggled mobile phones. Prisoners have been in contact with movie makers, using mobile phones as an underground connection. It carries the snapshots of these calls, presented in my head rectangle on the screen, an unusual urgency. Prisoners have become like the Robert Earl and Melvin Rai Council, who are talking about their minds directly and informing what they are watching, the film’s frank and persuasive movie narrators.
We get a direct certificate about what happened in prison, but raw phone clips achieve something else. He performs the human being, allowing them to reduce their general identities as convicted criminals. The film, in this sense, is not limited to abuse. It retracts the tendency of a sympathetic audience to the bathroom prisoners and we are watching them. The complete humanity of these men is something that is easy to clean aside, and this is something that reminds us of “Alabama’s solution” at every moment.
With horrific statistics on Alabama’s prisoner system. It is one of the worst in the United States, with the highest rates of an overdose of drugs, rape, suicide and murder. How does something happen? Easterling is an institution with a capacity of 200 percent. Conditions are terrifying. We see the Robert Earl Council throwing the mice wandering around its toilet, and we know that he spent five years in solitary confinement. It seems that he is amazing and optimistic that this hell passed by, but part of you wonders: How can prison justice to keep it. anyone For a long time? In the event of Easter, which is operated like a comprehensive work farm, all of this is part of how the system is organized to close the prisoners ’sounds, to ensure that the most blatant violations of the law are still hidden.
After we put in this nightmare world, the documentary is formed about one terrifying event. A prisoner in Donaldson, Stephen Davis, was beaten by the guards brutally, that he ended up in the intensive care unit. But it was worse: it was found there in the body bag. He was killed – for nothing. We have shown a secret picture taken from his body, which is a heinous picture, which you cannot explain, the bones of his face literally, and a black circle eye. “Alabama solution” becomes the mystery of the killing. How did this happen and why? How can it be covered?
Many prisoners saw what happened, and they bear witness to it, and their words are all in line with. They describe how Davis was beaten, the aforementioned goalkeeper taking his shoes and destroyed Davis’s head, and rose from the floor “like basketball.” But there is one prisoner who offers Condradictory. He is a colleague in the Davis Cell, James Sales. What explains the contradiction? Sales left only a few months of his punishment before he was released; He is trying not to shake the boat. Just as we wonder how this same will happen, something happens. The prison system solves it, not in a good way.
The main goalkeeper in the story, Roderick Jadson, with his bald head and the fitness that waves on the horizon, provokes the threat of suga Knight. We see footage of a hearing session in which he discusses the various violations that he was accused of, and consciously rejected them that the system will protect it. The system, which includes all prisons in Alabama, is run for profit. 20,000 state imprisoned in the state provides $ 450 million of goods and work in Alabama every year. For this reason, the state spent 50 million dollars defending prison officers prison against misconduct.
The injustice of everything – killing, silence, and capitalist ethics dating back to the servant’s era – is part of a larger strike, headed by the governor of Alabama, Kayi, who raises the desire for the wonder of its jurisdiction, the regime that must be played, in the Hollywood version of this story, By Cathy Bates. At some point, there is a state -level prison blow to protest against these crimes, and it appears to be a good organization. He gains traction and national attention and seems to be working … so as not to do so. You may think of Atka. For those who really carry cards here?
“Alabama solution”, as its title, relates to how prisons are part of a series of corruption at the state level. We were told how the state is planning to unify its prison system by building three huge Praison, at a cost of 900 million dollars. This is not a solution to overcrowded prison conditions; It is a efficient step by a company. The film indicates that Alabama, bad like the situation exists, is not alone. These trends and injustice are part of how prison in America is increasingly working. But “Alabama’s solution” puts the corrupt courage of this system with sufficient realistic evidence and the power of adequate filmmaking, to make a change.