Chained for Life (2018)Chained for Life, by Aaron Schimberg, shares a name with another film and that is not without some deliberate purpose. Schimberg’s film is not a remake but a reclamation and interrogation of a type of film that showed the limits of good-intentioned art about non-normative groups of people where they are merely subjects and not authors. The prologue to the 1952 Chained for Life, an exploitation film meets rather ludicrous crime procedural, begins with a directive to its audience. “This story has a real problem!” a middle-aged judge says in his monologue to the viewer as he sits down in his office. Directed by journeyman Harry L. Fraser and produced by Poverty Row veteran and jack of all trades George Moskov, this sixty-nine-minute film is more social experiment than anything else. Imagine a Stanley Kramer “problem picture” in low-budget William Castle clothing. The film presents a dilemma...
- 9/18/2019
- MUBI
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