Movie #2126 "Time" (Amazon Prime - streaming) And still another academy award nominated documentary that is again .....too long. (no worries, only two more to go!) I thought this one would be much better from just reading what it was about --- but it was all over the place --- very disjointed as far as time. I guess the filmmaker thought it would keep our attention that way. Yikes. As a result, it confused this viewer. And I felt I learned very little from this one in comparison to the others. And I wasn't entertained by it, or even enlightened by it --- I just wanted it to get over after the first few minutes. I had to google this one from the get go because I knew nothing about Fox Rich. And all I got out of this is that her husband at one point was supposed to get 60 years in prison for a robbery they both committed --- but they never gave us any specifics about it, and told us why she was out and he wasn't --- and why a 15-20 year sentence was changed to 60 years, etc. The film spent time showing us what a great speaker she is (I am guessing she made money doing that on the circuit to feed the several kids she had with Rob) and how much charism she has. But there are long passages of calling her lawyer up and listening to music she listens to as she waits, and waits, and waits. I get it --- she was yanked around, but it's just not good moviemaking to me. He finally got out, and it ended up but viewer is left wondering ---- well, how did that happen? I'd give this a 3, only because there was some nice black and white photography going on here, and some beautiful shots, once in a while, of the environment, etc. But out of all the documentaries so far that I saw that have been nominated, this is not one I would recommend.
"TIME" PG-13 1 hour and 21 minutes 2020
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