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More than just a documentary detailing the circumstances surrounding Rickey Jackson’s 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, Matt Waldeck’s Lovely Jackson is a memoir granting its subject ability to exorcize his demons through a first-hand, in-his-own-words reckoning with the experience. The result creates an emotional juxtaposition that goes beyond simply narrating reenactments—it enlists Rickey to both play himself and stand watch as Mario Beverly plays the memory of the 18-year-old man he was upon entering Mansfield Reformatory, the actual prison he inhabited before he was sent to death row for eight months. The exercise thus exists somewhere between your conventional true-crime drama dissecting facts via interview and the heightened, visceral approach of Robert Greene’s Procession.
This approach is a necessary one, considering Jackson spent 39 years behind bars. 39 years surviving day-by-day as each night brought both the sobering realization of everything he lost and the...
This approach is a necessary one, considering Jackson spent 39 years behind bars. 39 years surviving day-by-day as each night brought both the sobering realization of everything he lost and the...
- 10/18/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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