13TH (2016)

Slo naslov: -

Država: ZDA

Jezik: Angleščina

Leto: 2016

Dolžina: 100' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Dokumentarni, Krimi

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Ava DuVernay

Scenarij: Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick

Igrajo: Angela Davis, Corey Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michelle Alexander, Van Jones

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The title of Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis. 

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13th ... is dense with information, and it moves fast. But it's also a story told in images, and the ones DuVernay has chosen ring not just with sadness and horror but also cautious optimism. 

[Stephanie Zacharek, TIME]

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