This weekends OGTV Movie We Recommend goes to : The Place Beyond The Pines In light of the recent Michael Brown Ferguson court decision, we take particular note to the amzaing parallels between movie and reality that make this move THIS WEEKEND Movie, A MUST SEE. Writer/Director, Derek Cianfrances inspiration In 2007 for the movie, came about a few months before the birth of his second son, the film finally came to me. I had been thinking a lot about being a father and becoming one again and the responsibility that came with it, what I was going to pass down to my new boy. Cianfrance goes on to say, that these thoughts about my son, got me to thinking about the fire I felt inside me, which had been with me for as long as I could remember. It helped me to do many things. But it was also, many times, a destructive and painful force. It shapes who you become, but you have to take control of it. I knew that my father also had this fire in him, and his father as well…I started wondering how many generations back it went. I began to wish that my new boy would be born without this fire. I didn’t want to give him all of my pain and mistakes; I wanted him to have his own path. In the wake of Michael Browns death, we can not help but to think about the tragedy from a fathers perspective. And so taking a look inside the institutions of law enforcement in this movie, should add to the individual, institutional, and collective urgency to protect our children with what we call, Truth to Power. This has been an OGTV Weekend Movie Recommendation bought to you by opengovtv, where we seek to engage, educate, and empower.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:33:58 +0000
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