Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014: Season 1

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Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 22, 2015

Summary: Shari Cookson and Nick Doob's documentary uses news footage and social media postings to tell the stories of the lives of those killed in different shootings in the Spring of 2014 and the impact on their families.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary

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David Hinckley

Jun 23, 2015

Viewers can get depressed, infuriated or defensive. In the end, Requiem makes no overt political or ideological statement because it doesn’t have to. It’s about madness. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Jun 23, 2015

The film triumphs in making viewers feel the true loss of the lives of people we never knew. Read full review

Cynthia Fuchs

Jun 23, 2015

Nick Doob and Shari Cookson’s decision to use such “found footage” makes their film at once immediate and distressingly distanced, as it offers images both ordinary and specific, families and individuals posing for photos, their faces turned to the camera. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jun 23, 2015

Requiem doesn’t delve deeply enough to be anything but a blame-the-gun film.... The film is less helpful on the hard questions than it thinks it is, and watching it feels more exploitative than revelatory. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jun 23, 2015

The stories are all awful. They leave you feeling angry, depressed, and hopeless that anything can be done about gun violence in America. But Requiem for the Dead also feels manipulative in a reality TV sort of way. Read full review

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Prisme

Sep 29, 2015

Hard to watch but I recommend to everyone no matter which side of the gun debate you are. It is a visceral look into the suffering and loss of life that is all too often reduced to aseptic newspapers titles that convey horrific events but still leave us completely oblivious to what occurredHard to watch but I recommend to everyone no matter which side of the gun debate you are. It is a visceral look into the suffering and loss of life that is all too often reduced to aseptic newspapers titles that convey horrific events but still leave us completely oblivious to what occurred on a more personal level. I am not sure why some critics perceive this documentary as presumptuous, exploitative or poor investigative journalism since it is entirely existentialist in its presentation: gun deaths are what they are, you get to decide how you feel and think about what you are looking at - that's it, that's all. We witness first hand that gun violence puts all of us at risk: siblings, parents, couples, children and for the same dumb reasons which are really not reasons at all. To anyone with a conscience, this doc really drives the following message home: always be prudent and vigilent, be doubly careful with children and the mentally ill and be aware of the risks of someone else getting access to your firearms and doing something stupid.… Expand

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