RaMell Ross’ latest film depicts a version of the real life horrors at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
tells the story of the friendship of Elwood Curtis and Turner as the two navigate a harsh Florida reform school in the 1960s. Based on the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, the film has been praised by critics for its artful adaptation of Whitehead’s book, and how it uses a masterful combination of aspect ratio and POV camera shots to make viewers feel like they’re looking out through the eyes of the boys;a “radical work of art that channels a tsunami of radical empathy.
The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, also known as the Dozier School, first opened in Marianna, Florida in January 1900. What was meant as a home for children involved in minor crimes like truancy and theft evolved into a one-stop-shop for kids considered the throwaways of society: so-called delinquents, kids with emotional issues, and even orphans who couldn’t find places in overcrowded homes.
Jerry Cooper was sent to the school in 1961 at the age of 16 after police found him with a Marine driving a stolen car. Cooper was charged with theft alongside the adult and sent to the Dozier school rather than prison. “We had many, many boys who was there for smoking in school, that were incorrigible,” Cooper told. “We weren’t bad kids. We might have needed help in some respect. But that wasn’t the place to find it, I’ll tell you that right now.
“Daily, that pain is still with me,” Richard Huntly, leader of a group for Black Dozier survivors, told theElton John Called the Legalization of Marijuana in America and Canada 'One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time'4 hours ago
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