Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 40 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edgar Barens |
| production | Edgar Barens |
| camera | Edgar Barens |
| cut | Geoff Bartz |
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall is an American documentary - short film by Edgar Barens from the year 2013. The film, which deals with the life and death of the prisoner Jack Hall was at the Oscars in 2014 for an Oscar Nominated as " Best Documentary Short Film ", but lost to The Lady in Number 6 .
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Jack Hall is an 82-year-old inmate in the Iowa State Penitentiary, a maximum security prison. Hall is seriously ill and needs care. Edgar Barens accompanied Jack Hall with the camera in the last months of his life.
George William "Jack" Hall, (1924-2006), who served as a soldier in World War II from 1942 to 1945 and was awarded the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal , is serving a life sentence for murder in the Iowa State Penitentiary. Hall shot and killed the drug dealer who had addicted his youngest son more than two decades earlier. The family man has been in prison for 21 years at the beginning of the film. He has lived in a cell in the infirmary since a heart attack from which he never fully recovered. The prison in which Hall lives opened its own hospice, financed by donations, in 2005 . Two rooms in the infirmary were set up as dying rooms, and six inmates volunteered for further training to become dying attendants. The furnishing of the death room was partly made by the prisoners themselves.
Jack explains that 82 years is enough and he no longer wants life support. He moves to the prison hospital and is cared for by fellow prisoners there until his death 14 days later.
reception
Anthony Kaufman rated the film for sundancenow.com and found the portrayal of the protagonist, who is slowly dying in front of the audience, quite powerful, but overall the film was too predictable.
Web links
- Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- prisonterminal.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ prisonterminal.blogspot.de , accessed on January 7, 2015.
- ↑ Anthony Kaufman: Docutopia: Searching for Surprises in this Year's Oscar-Nominated Short Docs ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article from February 19, 2014, accessed on January 8, 2015, wording: While the film powerfully chronicles a man fading away right before our eyes […], it's all too predetermined .
