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I almost lost hope in this documentary, but that hope was rectified with the final 15 beautiful minutes. However even though the documentary finished strong, as a whole it really failed to grip me! The overall backbone of the film, was for me the journey that the family experienced whilst growing up without a father. This journey for me was incomplete. As a viewer I wanted to know how the mother created her own narrative and was reborn from the ashes, completely rising up from the total desperation of before she was incarcerated. How the children were effected by this when they were small children to when they were adults. Not just raw footage of a baby and then current video of a graduation. The director showed us the beginning and the end, unfortunately I found no middle ground.

I actually saw this because of its Oscar nomination for best Documentary Feature but I don't really like it. It's both messy and empty. It feels like it's missing a lot of informations and explanations. And it's chaotic when it comes to character identities. As for the story itself, it seems powerful but if you think well about it, it doesn't fully make sense.

Yes there is injustice. But this movie isnt about it. Maybe its about the love of two former criminals who cant be united for a long time. (Much more even the movie itself doesnt says.) But its definitely not about the big questions like guilt, justice, equal rights ... but okay, maybe the film dont want to discuss this. Of course love is a strong theme, that can be enough if it's not that one-dinensional. I felt a big lack of sympathy for the protagonists of this movie. The whole time I waited for more details to get emotionally involved. Not to mention that pretending to be religious and then saying blasphemic things ... or speaking of injustice but not explaining it exactly or showing any repentance made me angry. So I missed a lot: Content for the lovestory part and especially content for a political part.

This movie is kind of beautiful, and very sad. It tells a story that I am sure many can relate to, and it tells it well.