Violent criminal felons in prison should be locked up and rotting away, not spending their days fiddling around with their raps in a makeshift prison studio. Most of these losers are in prison directly due to hip hop gang related turf wars in the first place, now you're giving them a platform to further voice their delusional antiwhite blatherings?! As if prison in America werent enough of a tax payer funded criminals summer camp as it is.. what a joke. Ultimately, the film is low budget bad production and sends the wrong message.. oh and the music itself? Absolutely awfully dreadful.
16 Bars
2018
Action / Documentary
16 Bars
2018
Action / Documentary
80% - Critics
100% - Audience
6.8Plot summary
16 Bars is an intimate look at the lives of four inmates at the city jail in Richmond, Virginia, who are a part of a unique rehabilitation effort that involves writing and recording original music. The film follows their personal and artistic development as they produce and record with with Grammy- winning recording artist, Todd 'Speech' Thomas, from the hip-hop group Arrested Development. As the creative process unfurls and a chance at freedom draws near, each of these men must unearth painful elements of their pasts, which hold the key to a new chapter in their lives. The story is set in Richmond Virginia, the former seat of the confederacy, where the legacy of systemic racism, a spiraling opioid crisis, generational poverty, and a lack of mental health services have entrapped many of its citizens in a cycle of incarceration- which makes the city itself a unique case study for rising recidivism rates in the U.S. at large. With the U.S. locking up more of its citizens per capita than any other nation on the planet, the music of the film serves as rare testimony to the raw and messy truth behind the criminal justice system's revolving door.
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The music industry is dead thanks to your hero obabama and his not only allowing of but endorsing (on the white house website no less!) pirates Daniel Ek and Sean Parker in their "create the virus (Napster/uTorrent piracy) - provide the cure (Spotify/Facebook streaming)" global destruction and takeover of the music industry. Today only the major label 1% funk fakin fresh faced posterchild ad click product sales data collecting influencer is making any money. the rest are all hobbyists at best making mediocre noise due to no budget and no time to create. the independent sector has been completely decimated by these crooks. meanwhile these crooks are taking home billions of dollars EACH in personal cash paydays every year! So why on earth are you now allowing and teaching convicted felons a dead end useless trade??? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. They should be working to pay for their incarceration. Violent felons should have NO type of entertainment and the key to their locks thrown tf away. This film is a joke.. and the music? its laughable at best.
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Shines a light...
This film shines a light on a system that needs to change and the hidden talent within that system. Everyone from the staff to the inmates as well as the producers of this gem film prove that change is possible!