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‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Review: A Revolutionary Doc, Made From Bodycam Footage, Takes Us Inside an Avoidable Tragedy
Reconstructing a dispute from police bodycam footage, director Geeta Gandbhir reveals how white citizens leverage law enforcement to their advantage.
In some cases, you couldn’t help it, as there are some people who simply aren’t made for suburban living, terrifying the neighborhood kids by growling “Get off my lawn!” anytime an oblivious child stepped foot on their precious property. That’s one of the many subtexts that rises to the surface in this emotional and thought-provoking social experiment from the Emmy-winning director of “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” whose film doubles as a litmus test to audiences’ own biases. This is the trickiest part for Gandbhir to reconstruct, since the shooting occurs off-camera, although the director does use audio from what appears to be a doorbell camera recording from across the street to give audiences a sense of the confrontation — far different from the life-and-death scenario Lorincz describes.
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