‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: A Wrenching Look At A New Civil Rights Battlefield [Sundance]
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens,” wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “but by how it treats its criminals.” The United States ranks as an unabashed and alarming failure by that metric. The country’s negligence toward the vulnerable and marginalized will certainly not come as news (or at least a surprise) to most, so it’s a testament to the fearless filmmaking of co-directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufmann that their documentary “The Alabama Solution” lands with such force. Continue reading ‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: A Wrenching Look At A New Civil Rights Battlefield [Sundance] at The Playlist.
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“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens,” wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “but by how it treats its criminals.” The United States ranks as an unabashed and alarming failure by that metric. The country’s negligence toward the vulnerable and marginalized will certainly not come as news (or at least a surprise) to most, so it’s a testament to the fearless filmmaking of co-directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufmann that their documentary “The Alabama Solution” lands with such force.
