LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE TRULY TRANSCENDENT FILM SING SING, with its powerful plea for restorative justice, which I was lucky enough 2 attend a free Film Independent screening of at the Harmony Gold last night...Impressive performances across the board drive a film that’s bound to destroy many false myths about prison life and the men who have been incarcerated...We need art to survive. We need art to process emotions that can otherwise overwhelm us. Those same things also apply to the importance of connections with others. Sing Sing is a cinematic testament to both essential ingredients of existence...we also need authenticity and vulnerability to be fully human...Sing Sing is a cinematic testament and Killing Justice a literary testament to both essential ingredients of our full humanity...Sing Sing is a beautifully compassionate film about regaining lost humanity through the arts, providing definitive proof that such a thing is possible...Colman Domingo shines in this love letter to uncaged male vulnerability...A profound act of cinematic grace...When the curtain rises on the beauty they’ve all built, what we witness is a work of art that never papers over the injustices just as we see the men who are fighting for their humanity in a world that doesn’t value it...Sing Sing isn’t simply a movie about one man experiencing the power of the arts, but about how such a program acts as a consistent source of sanctuary for everybody involved...In a landscape that refuses to see these men and their stories as anything but their trauma, Sing Sing tells us of their joy. The film breaks your heart and rebuilds it stronger than before...Not only is Sing Sing one of the most soul-searching films in recent years, it is perhaps the most honest depiction of art as an expression of hope and inner strength...Sing Sing beautifully shows the importance of healing through art...A quiet declaration of art's redemptive powers... .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dXc6P3zH8
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