cThe inside of Hristine Yoo's intelligent, caring, deeply moving film, 26.2 To Life: San Quentin Prison Marathon, follows some of the prisoners at California's largest security facility. Mostly serving life sentences run 100 laps in prison yards that cannot weave or get out of the way, along barely marked tracks. I'm getting ready. . They are all subject to minor or major lockdowns that will interrupt or cancel races they have been training all year round at any time. They can wear clothes for non-jail issues to run, but their shoes are state property and must be in and out by each man in every session.
As runners are known, the 1000-mile club is trained by a group of volunteers led by Franklin Luna, the experienced marathon man himself. A naturally quiet and careful soul, he will not talk to men about their crimes unless they wish. In his view, they are people who have no luck or advantages. “I feel like my brother's keeper,” he says. In a passionate prison atmosphere, he is a calm oasis.
Yoo focuses on just a handful of Frank's allegations, cutting back between the race unfolding and the narrative unfolding, how much discipline has brought to their lives, and what is it? It shows the meaning given to the year. There is no chance of a release. But when they pound around the dusty gardens many times, it also shows the waste and futility of the actions that brought them to this point. Yoo interviews prisoners about backstory and crimes – murder and manslaughter charges have added years of “enhancement” for gun use in general – and we'll contextualize You are asked to do so, but you should not forgive them (particularly at the prison wall where you interview the prisoners' families if Yoo is above the top). That said, like most documentaries of this kind, it is clear that only one version of each story is said. He doesn't hear anything from the victims.
Nevertheless, profound and systemic poverty, endemic drug trafficking and violence in certain cities across the United States remain extraordinary. Most men talk about growing up with violent or drug addict parents, and about not knowing what to do with their anger when they grow up. It is just as much a portrait of masculinity as the zonal restraint it represents – oppression, emotional illiteracy, its pure loneliness explodes outside to other men, and often wives, girlfriends, other women and handing out misfortune to his wife, girlfriend, and other women.
Still, there is hope here. In Rahsaan, he was originally sentenced to life from 55 for two murders, but gradually returned to his computer child roots, and in the school's talented class, he himself became a mentor, journalist and participant. Throw in. The Marshall Project, a non-profit news organization. Tommy Wickard (he talks about his sw sw tattoo, “Bulk is something I believed”) is working hard towards his GED and his incarceration is his He repairs the damage he inflicted on his son. In Markelle “The Gazelle” Taylor, a talented high school athlete who is a horrible, abusive stepfather (participating in the San Quentin Marathon theoretically qualified for the Boston Marathon), whose early experiences have made him violent. I changed it to a drunkard. In the death of premature babies, equality is difficult to consider.
For example, among Markel's accounts of his crime, there is a point in which 26.2 feels revived. Find a way to the prison garden) makes a strong pull. But mostly, it remains transparent, crossing the finish line in fine shapes.
