A falsely accused single mother refuses to take a plea deal in a film based on a true-life miscarriage of justice
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
We tend to think of the U.S. justice system as the best in the world -- as Americans we can be blindly self-righteous like that, going through life assuming that the people who should are paying attention to the "innocent until proven guilty" clause on which it was built.
Then along comes a film like "American Violet," a disquieting drama based on the true story of a young single mother arrested during what turned out to be a tainted, race-based drug sweep by a conviction-hungry DA in a small Texas town. [...]
di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3368 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 17 aprile 2009
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