American Crime 2015 (AC2015) are intensely developed stories about a number of crimes committed in Modesto, CA. The stories depicted are not meant to make you laugh. AC2015 is a very intense drama — disturbing to say the least.
Before I go further, I must give credit to the insightful script writers, who wrote credible dialogue for the well developed characters within the context of the story lines. Also, credit must be given to the brilliant casting director(s). The actors give the necessary edge to escalate the frustration, grief and individual ways of coping with the futility of their situations as they saw them. You may find their chemistry as a whole odious. The direction and prime talent of the actors delivered over the top performances that will cause the audience disconcerting thoughts and feelings. AC2015 was well done. It's content is worthy of discussion. I recommend watching season one of the AC series anthology.
The stories are about many families involved with the fallout of crimes and what they do to sort things out in pursuit of justice. The characters are diverse within their own families, as well as without. Some adapt better and make things work to minimize loss, while others only know estrangement and blame.
I found the inability, for some, to exercise good judgment, overruled by wayward emotions, pathetic and tragic. Those particular characters show us about real peoples' track records of behavior, or narrowly, stunted intellectual latitude, resulting with an incapability to fully comprehend reality and culpability. These traits will always cause them to blow out in life. Anyone, who has ever sat on juries in the criminal courts, will recognize many of these characters' mindset, with their families included.
Barb (Felicity Huffman) is the pivotal character in the main plot. Felicity's performance is sterling. Love her. Hate her. Her grief is put on hold, because she must deal with the justice system as it is. The complexity of what Barb is up against, while desperately trying to understand answers to questions that never will be satisfactory is totally daunting to her. Disruptive people with their own agendas, whether 'passive-aggressive', 'aggressively destructive' 'on the offensive', 'in denial', 'absent', 'incompetent', 'liars' 'vigilantes', 'limited intelligence', 'racists' and Barb herself, all contribute to her ineffectiveness. Barb evolves, though.
Russ (Timothy Hutton) is static, reliving how he is past his previous self. Russ is not even close to resolving his personal inadequacies, nor recognizing them, yet he feels entitled to pick up where he left off. Tim gave another great performance.
Aubry (Caitlin Gerard) gives another incredible performance. Aubry and Carter (Elvis Nolasco) create a bizarre world of love and disaster. Allyah (Regina King), gave another fantastic delivery of counter struggle to right matters.
Alonzo (Benito Martinez), an illegal, suffers immense loss fighting for his family. AC2015 is an interesting contrast of families in crisis — individuals in crisis. How people communicate with each other helps or hinders finding the truth.
The juxtaposing of characters throughout the main plot and subplots add to the heaviness all share in getting through the awful circumstances that these families were suddenly thrust into, because of American Crimes.
Before I go further, I must give credit to the insightful script writers, who wrote credible dialogue for the well developed characters within the context of the story lines. Also, credit must be given to the brilliant casting director(s). The actors give the necessary edge to escalate the frustration, grief and individual ways of coping with the futility of their situations as they saw them. You may find their chemistry as a whole odious. The direction and prime talent of the actors delivered over the top performances that will cause the audience disconcerting thoughts and feelings. AC2015 was well done. It's content is worthy of discussion. I recommend watching season one of the AC series anthology.
The stories are about many families involved with the fallout of crimes and what they do to sort things out in pursuit of justice. The characters are diverse within their own families, as well as without. Some adapt better and make things work to minimize loss, while others only know estrangement and blame.
I found the inability, for some, to exercise good judgment, overruled by wayward emotions, pathetic and tragic. Those particular characters show us about real peoples' track records of behavior, or narrowly, stunted intellectual latitude, resulting with an incapability to fully comprehend reality and culpability. These traits will always cause them to blow out in life. Anyone, who has ever sat on juries in the criminal courts, will recognize many of these characters' mindset, with their families included.
Barb (Felicity Huffman) is the pivotal character in the main plot. Felicity's performance is sterling. Love her. Hate her. Her grief is put on hold, because she must deal with the justice system as it is. The complexity of what Barb is up against, while desperately trying to understand answers to questions that never will be satisfactory is totally daunting to her. Disruptive people with their own agendas, whether 'passive-aggressive', 'aggressively destructive' 'on the offensive', 'in denial', 'absent', 'incompetent', 'liars' 'vigilantes', 'limited intelligence', 'racists' and Barb herself, all contribute to her ineffectiveness. Barb evolves, though.
Russ (Timothy Hutton) is static, reliving how he is past his previous self. Russ is not even close to resolving his personal inadequacies, nor recognizing them, yet he feels entitled to pick up where he left off. Tim gave another great performance.
Aubry (Caitlin Gerard) gives another incredible performance. Aubry and Carter (Elvis Nolasco) create a bizarre world of love and disaster. Allyah (Regina King), gave another fantastic delivery of counter struggle to right matters.
Alonzo (Benito Martinez), an illegal, suffers immense loss fighting for his family. AC2015 is an interesting contrast of families in crisis — individuals in crisis. How people communicate with each other helps or hinders finding the truth.
The juxtaposing of characters throughout the main plot and subplots add to the heaviness all share in getting through the awful circumstances that these families were suddenly thrust into, because of American Crimes.