{"id":244490,"date":"2011-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/film-review-crime-after-crime\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:00:00","slug":"film-review-crime-after-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/film-review-crime-after-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Film<\/a>
Debbie Peagler, imprisoned for partaking in the death of her abusive boyfriend, in a scene from the documentary \u201cCrime After Crime.\u201d (Courtesy LSL Films)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cinema of frustration<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime After Crime\u201d
\nProduced, Photographed, Edited and Directed:<\/strong> by Yoav Potash
\nFeaturing:<\/strong> Debbie Peagler, Tennille Williams and Joshua Safran
\nClasificaci\u00f3n:<\/strong> 3 estrellas<\/p>\n

Por Scott Marcas |<\/strong> Cr\u00edtico de cine SDUN<\/p>\n

Movies such as Yoav Potash\u2019s \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d are infuriating in so many ways. What this film has to say about the American justice system will make you want to move to Canada. Had I seen this story\u2014about a woman who spends her life in prison because she tried to break free from an abusive boyfriend in a theatre\u2014I would have ripped the seat in front of me to shreds.<\/p>\n

Debbie Peagler was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years-to-life for conspiring to ensure Oliver Wilson, her abusive pimp boyfriend, received the beating of his life. It had been Peagler\u2019s mother who\u2019d first introduced her then 15-year-old daughter to her future abuser, and she\u2019d also arranged for Oliver to get his comeuppance. But Peagler never ratted on her mom.<\/p>\n

Oliver tried to force Peagler into a life of prostitution. She returned from her first trick untouched and with no money, so he beat her. Calls to the authorities proved fruitless. To the cops, she was just another dumb ghetto broad with a taste for abusive boyfriends. The beatings escalated and Oliver replaced his fists with a bullwhip.<\/p>\n

Peagler did not witness his murder, but she did take part in arranging it. She exited the moment the two hired-goons began to take Oliver apart. The official cause of death was listed as \u201casphyxia due to or as a consequence of strangulation.\u201d Upon his death, Peagler received a check for $17,000 from a life insurance company. (Most of the money went to pay for Oliver\u2019s elaborate funeral.) The L.A. County D.A.\u2019s office won its case arguing that Peagler had Oliver killed for the insurance money.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the aim of this review to minimize what Deborah Peagler endured, but damn if I can\u2019t set aside my obsession with visual storytelling long enough to focus solely on the film\u2019s sociological significance.<\/p>\n

Cinematically speaking, it\u2019s an endless flow of talking-head interviews. \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d should be found guilty of crimes against cinema.<\/p>\n

Filmmaker, and former La Jollan Yotav Potash spent five years documenting Peagler\u2019s life in and out of prison. His first job behind the camera was as a legal videographer taping depositions, and from the look of things, the influence was a tough one to shake.<\/p>\n

Were one to assign this documentary a sub-generic heading it would surely be \u201ccinema of frustration.\u201d Not unlike Hitchcock\u2019s gut-wrenching \u201cThe Wrong Man,\u201d Peagler\u2019s plight leaves you powerless in your chair. This had as much to do with the triumph of our injustice system as it does the human spirit, and by the time it\u2019s over you\u2019ll find yourself nursing feelings of aggravation compounded by sorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime After Crime\u201d is currently playing at Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cinema of frustration \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d Produced, Photographed, Edited and Directed: by Yoav Potash Featuring: Debbie Peagler, Tennille Williams and Joshua Safran Rating: 3 stars By Scott Marks | SDUN Film Critic Movies such as Yoav Potash\u2019s \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d are infuriating in so many ways. What this film has to say about the American […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Film Review: \u201cCrime After Crime\u201d","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}