Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Documentary • R • 2021 • 2 hr 1 min
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Crazy how much footage was captured. So heartbreaking to watch. This is not a feel good doc and will stay with you awhile after watching.
Borders on voyeuristic and almost unethical, but not much has illustrated the lifelong burden that comes with being an addict like it does.
It's the most real thing ever seeing these people do what they did and how they go through it all
It's a raw (almost complicit and ilegal) show about the consequences of crime and drugs. If you're fainthearted, I don't recommend it.
An important cinematic achievement that follows 3 people whose whole life depended on drugs. Crude and hard to watch but deeply empathetic.
It shows real people throughout their life. It shows their ups and downs and makes you cheer for their triumphs.
Raw & so sad.
Fuck.
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Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.
This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.
An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey.
