2012 · documentary · crime · coming-of-age
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Directed by Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger2h 1m2012
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.
Our read: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded documentary · crime · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured documentary / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- twisty
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