June 09, 2013

Man on the Street interviews in Renaldo & Clara

Shooting in Harlem outside the Apollo Theater 
Camera Operator asks a few kids

hey what do ya know about Rubin Carter? 


interviewer: 
Have you benefitted at all from 9 years in prison?
has it done anything positive for you? 
camera cuts away before an answer, music blares. 
no time for a circus. 

camera man films a man eating a hamburger outside the apollo.

Camera man tell hamburger eater:
yeah I think he's innocent too, why is he in there? 
Man between bites: 

"I'm not surprised. I'm not looking for justice in this country"