Exemplary Behaviour
- Documentary Film
- 85'
- 2019
- Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria
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Having experienced the loss of the killed brother, director Audrius Mickevičius went to the Lukiškės prison to examine the paradox of “exemplary behavior”. Mickevičius met Rimantas and Rolandas, sentenced to life but driven by the hope of change. Mickevičius himself experienced the journey from anger to forgiveness, which was interrupted by his terminal disease.
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Throughout this documentary about lifelong inmates, its original music sustains the hopelessness of the situation these convicts have found themselves in, invoking anxiety when the viewer is first faced with the murderers, uilding up tension along the narrative arc and, with a crescendo near the end, ultimately eliciting forgiveness.
For an exceptional and dramatic personal approach to saying goodbye, collective revenge and systematic punishment turning a real life story into cinematic meditation. This film helps us understand the logic of the prison system, as well as people going through it, their lives, families and stories. The director himself faces issues with the system and has to find a way to come to terms with it.
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