Free
In Deed 3/10
Today
Koko and I went to the AFI films where we saw two movies. This was
the second one called Free In Deed which was based off of actual
events. This is the story of a man played by David Harewood with a
strong faith in god and trying to make up for whatever he did in the
past as well as a single mother played by Edwina Findley Dickerson
that is struggling to work and take care of her two children, one of
whom has something wrong where he has violent fits. She can not
control him, he gets kicked out of school, and she turns to the
church and this guys healing hands for help. This could only end
badly.
This
was one of those movies where I know people will love it but it was
missing something to me. It was a little over 90 minutes but felt
like three hours. The kid screaming went on for too long and too many
times. I am sure this was to give everyone watching a sense of what
it is like dealing with this. It just annoyed the hell out of me.
Some people left during the very long feeling church scenes that felt
repetitive after the third time. The acting was good but Harewood
sounded like a English guy doing an American voice. Dickerson was
good but I felt like there was more to her than was shown. If ten
minutes of church were removed and more explanation of each
characters past I'd have liked this a little bit more.
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