2012 · documentary
The House I Live In
Directed by Eugene Jarecki1h 50m2012
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?
Our read: The House I Live In (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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