A bittersweet documentary details how America’s incarceration system creates spiritual orphans and widows.
There are many poignant moments in Time, a quietly expansive documentary about a Louisiana family’s long-suffering experience with the criminal justice system. But one moment nearly wrecked me.
It involves a conversation during a car ride between Sibil Fox Richardson (aka Fox Rich) and her son Remington, who is 5 at the time. Their talk was recorded in 1999, the year Fox’s husband (Remington’s father) was sentenced to 60 years in prison for armed robbery. With wide-eyed self-confidence, young Remington addresses his mother as she holds the camera, expounding on his plans to take on new responsibilities now that he’s starting school:
“I’m gonna say, `Mama, you don’t need to hold that. Let me carry it.’ ‘Cause I’m your kindergartner. And then you put it in my hand. . . I carry it wherever you tell me to take it.”
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