Review of The Interrupters (2011) by Henrique B — 21 Apr 2012

The Interrupters.

Presented by Steve James, this documentary deals with violence in Chicago, where murder of a teenager Derrion Albert 16, at the hands of street violence, shocked the entire nation of America; prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to send his team to meet Mayor of Chicago to address the grave issue. I pretty much liked the cinematography work. People involved in interrupting street violence, have shown courage and bravery to get deep inside dangerous neighborhoods and meet victimized or redeeming people. It is way too praiseworthy that these people are engaged in this most serious issue, to polish minds of young African-American kids with lessons and goodness of peace, rather than to die for evil that promotes violence and nothing else.

It is tough job to individually teach each one of young kids to abandon way of violent life, the job they do is to persuade each one of them to learn to live and tolerate their new peaceful life and to shun violence in every form. Ameena Matthews, works with spirit and commitment to persuade victimized families, to learn to forgive and spread this message of forgiving to all those involved in violence; that there is no excuse to continue what they are doing, but that there is always a door of 'hope' and that door is to 'Forgiveness'.

The documentary running time is 1:58mins. but this is required to cover most of lives, who have realized the notion of peace and who have given up violent tactics to lead life.