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A Hard Name — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {A Hard Name — Wikipedia (en)},
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  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Name},
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  year = {2026}
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A Hard Name is a 2009 documentary film by Alan Zweig that explores the lives of ex-convicts. In the film, Zweig interviews seven ex-convicts about their times in prison and their lives on the outside. The men talk about insights they have gained about their lives, including how childhood abuse led to a life of crime. Film subjects include one man who stabbed fellow inmate Clifford Olson 21 times, before Olson committed his serial killings. Another of the film's subjects was abused as a child while a resident at the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. A Hard Name ends with archival television footage of him performing, playing the guitar and singing for other young residents of the home. Zweig admitted to be intimidated about doing these interviews: "[...] Intimidated, I guess. Less by their danger and more by a male competitive thing, in a way…they’re going to see through me. They’re going to see that if I went to jail, I’d be an easy mark. I’m not as tough as them. I haven’t survived what they’ve survived and they’re just going to dismiss me as a weak citizen.” However, the ex-convicts interviewed were surprisingly open to Zweig and allowed themselves to be shown as vulnerable.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «A Hard Name» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Name
Wikidata Q4657254: «film del 2009 diretto da Alan Zweig» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4657254
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Name?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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