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Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
Time
2020 Directed by Garrett Bradley
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Davis Guggenheim Jonathan Silberberg Nicole Stott Garrett Bradley Shannon Dill Kathleen Lingo Lauren Domino Laurene Powell-Jobs Kellen Quinn Rahdi Taylor Kelsey Carr
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On its surface, Garrett Bradley’s “Time” asks a simple question: How can you convey the full length of 21 years in the span of a single film, let alone a documentary that runs just 81 minutes? And from its degraded opening images — borrowed from the first of a thousand video messages that a black Louisiana woman named Sibil Fox Richardson (aka “Fox Rich”) recorded for her husband as she waited for him to be released from the State Penitentiary — offers a similarly simple answer: You don’t measure it in length, but rather in loss.
You measure time in absence. In the undertows of anger that swirl under the water and threaten to sweep you out to sea. In…
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NYFF 2020: film #9
"desperate people do desperate things. it’s as simple as that"
not only one of the most moving documentaries i've ever seen, but certainly one of the most moving films i've ever seen. overwhelming doesn't even cut it
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Mass incarceration and unjust prison system really is the definition of modern day slavery. Time is a documentary film that tells the story of Fox Rich and her two decade long fight for the release of her husband, who is currently serving a sixty year sentence in prison. Ever since America was colonized, the minorities, especially the black community, are under extreme scrutiny that even the slightest offense can get them arrested, or even killed. The corruption and prejudice are deeply rooted with America’s justice system, to the point of losing your humanity if you were convicted, falsely or otherwise.
Time itself is a critical symbolism for the film, as it represents how much of it was wasted by trying…
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“My twins will be 18 next month. 18 years old. When their daddy got sentenced, I was three months pregnant. They have absolutely no idea about what it means to have a father in their house, what fathers even do.”
the most emotional and best edited film of the year. 2020 has taught me many things, but the thing I will remember for the rest of my life regardless of whatever happens to me, is that love is truly the strongest force in the universe. whether it’s after 6 months or 20 years, true love, that kind of unshakable force of adoration and devotion, cannot be beaten or broken, no matter what the world does. how anyone can watch this…
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god, when she says "i want to be as far away from this level of pain for my whole family as i can...so far away that i don't even remember how bad it really hurt."
abolish prisons
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time is what you make of it.
time is unbiased,
time flies, time is gone.
time is a storm in which we are all lost.
time is mine; time is yours;
time is ours.but above all else
time is theirs.
and no matter who controls it,
time is the only thing we can never get back. -
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"I wanna be as far away from this level of pain as I can be. So far away that I don’t even remember how bad it really hurt."
Fox sits at her desk as she makes a call, and she gets put on hold. There's no hold music. It's just silent, and she has to sit in that silence and wait. After a long beat, there's a twitch in her eye, and it's in that moment you realize this is what she's been doing for nearly two decades -- waiting.
Time is a story about a woman fighting to hold her family together in a situation that is profoundly unfair. It's a clear, concise argument in the name of abolition. And it is a heartbreaking, devastating love story.
I'm speechless.
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A remarkable feat of editing that somehow carries through on the original, private intentions of its restructured/repurposed footage; it’s like an epic that’s been discovered out of fragments. And like all epics dating back to the first, it’s a story of homecoming. Incredible finale.
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I will come out and admit it: I struggled to sympathise with anyone except the children for most of this documentary.
Prison is dehumanising, and Rob’s sentence of 60 years is excessive- though Fox’s mother does imply his sentence would have been comparable to Fox‘s if he’d pleaded guilty. If he had good reasons for not pleading guilty, the film doesn’t explore it, so as a viewer, I can’t help but think he made a personal error for committing a crime - and then pleading not guilty to it - when the film absolutely 100% says it did happen, and he did do it.
As for personal errors: yeah, don’t rob banks! Especially not with weapons! Their reasons aren’t even…
