The expertly lensed Mudbound - written and directed by Dee Rees and photographed by Rachel Morrison - explores the personal, economic, and racial tensions of two rural families living by way of the land in World War II-era Mississippi. What is also apparent is that there is still hope for fundamental change, a message echoed by the film’s ensemble of progressively minded confiders, figures both left- and right-leaning. The film can be difficult to watch, but DuVernay’s grim realizations are made to be blatant. Over the course of the film, DuVernay and many activists, lawmakers, and academics unfold decade after decade of politically motivated legislation, and the lobbyists often behind these laws, that have led not only to the privatization of the American prison system but also to the staggeringly disproportionate incarceration of millions of African American men and women. But you don’t.” Ava DuVernay’s eye-opening, at times harrowing, 13th is a pivotal documentary that explores the centuries-old criminalization of disenfranchised African American communities, but by way of tracing the steps of American racism to its very roots. “If you’re in the prison business, you don’t want reform.
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