![]() ![]() It's an unsettling, challenging, and deeply personal account of an incomprehensibly horrible incident - an incident clearly shown not to be isolated, but a product of the racism of the past, and a harbinger of the more recent news stories of the shooting deaths of unarmed African-American men. There's some cursing, including "f-k." There's a brief mention of the filmmaker sneaking into the room of his older brother and looking at his copies of Playboy and Forum, and how it led to the filmmaker's awakening to identify as "queer," which would later lead to coming out as a lesbian in college and a transgendered male years later. ![]() As such, there are moments of raw and unflinching expressions of deep sorrow that could be too intense for some viewers. However, the documentary primarily focuses on the long-term suffering a family experiences as they try to make sense of the senseless - a facet, depth, and nuance rarely seen in the typical mass-media coverage of homicides, especially in the African-American community. Although it's the story of a young and upstanding African-American man shot and killed by a white teenage boy who is later acquitted of murder by an all-white grand jury, the movie takes great pains to place the killing in the broader context of deeply rooted institutional racism. Parents need to know that Strong Island is a 2017 documentary chronicling the murder of the filmmaker's older brother in 1992 and the ensuing grief and racial injustice that devastated his family. ![]()
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