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You Won’t Forget the Faces of Daughters
The Netflix documentary is full of worthy, moving ideas. But the way the directors have shot and assembled this material takes it to another level.
The directors have said that one of their goals in making the film is to draw attention to the fact that many prisons have done away with “touch visits” between inmates and families, so that they can only meet via video calls or over the phone. Five-year-old Aubrey, who boasts that she’s the smartest kid in her class, has festooned the walls of her house with certificates she’s won at school, because of a promise she made to her dad, Keith, once. Arguably, these final scenes are the most devastating — not because of any grand emotional revelations or narrative developments but because they underscore the basic truth the entire film has been building up to: Time is the most precious thing we have.
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