Un documentaire qui examine le cas de cinq adolescents noirs et latino-américains condamné pour avoir violé une femme blanche à Central Park en 1989. Après avoir passé des années en prison, ... Tout lireUn documentaire qui examine le cas de cinq adolescents noirs et latino-américains condamné pour avoir violé une femme blanche à Central Park en 1989. Après avoir passé des années en prison, un violeur en série avoue avoir commis le crime.Un documentaire qui examine le cas de cinq adolescents noirs et latino-américains condamné pour avoir violé une femme blanche à Central Park en 1989. Après avoir passé des années en prison, un violeur en série avoue avoir commis le crime.
- Récompenses
- 10 victoires et 18 nominations
- Self - Wrongfully Convicted
- (as Korey Wise)
- Self - Confessed Rapist
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- (archives sonores)
- Self - Reverend
- (as Rev. Calvin Butts)
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Jim Dwyer - New York Times: What ever you do in life, you make mistakes, and you either face your mistakes, or you don't. I don't think the Press faced it's mistakes. I don't think the Police Department faced the truth in what had happened, because the truth of what had happened is almost unbearable. By prosecuting the wrong people in the central park rape case, Matais Reyes continued to hurt, maim and kill. And They could have had him, but they got stuck with a mistake, and they are still invested in that mistake.
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Written by KRS-One
Published by Universal Music - Z Tunes LLC
Performed by Boogie Down Productions
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
The film examines the infamous 1989 Central Park Jogger case, where a young white woman is brutally beaten and raped in New York's Central Park. At the same time, a group of five young black and Latino teenagers were quickly arrested for the crime and imprisoned. Following swift arrests by law enforcement officials, the prosecutors proudly declared the conviction as a step forward in the reclamation of a the city. Despite the lack of concrete evidence, all five are found guilty on multiple charges. Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, and Kharey Wise each spent between six to 13 years in prison, professing their innocence, while maintaining that it was a coerced confession to the crime. However, a chance encounter between the oldest of them and convicted serial rapist Matias Reyes, who years later yields his free admission of sole responsibility for the crime, and the claim is further substantiated with DNA evidence.
The documentary's approach seamlessly blends past and present, re-examines the assault, and walks you through what happened to the teenagers, from their arrest through their exoneration. Burns captures the complexity of history with startling results, yet "The Central Park Five" isn't quite as comprehensive as hoped, and fails to add anything substantively new to the story. Additionally, an element of balance is missing that would have turned a very good documentary into an exceptional one.
"The Central Park Five" presents the facts of the case with clarity, and it is a courageous, revealing look at the often complex and broken legal system in the United States. Unfortunately, there is no avoiding the conclusion presented by historian Craig Steven Wilder: "Rather than tying (the case) up in a bow and thinking that there was something we can take away from it, and that we'll be better people, I think what we really need to realize is that we're not very good people."
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- 3 oct. 2013
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 325 653 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 30 570 $US
- 25 nov. 2012
- Montant brut mondial
- 325 653 $US
- Durée1 heure 59 minutes
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- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.78 : 1