Sing Sing

Based on a true story, this film is about acting, not singing. The name comes from the fact that this is film about the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York ( Sing Sing). This is a nuanced film that feels like a documentary. It is a biographical film of fiction, but suggests a kind of redemption that may not be entirely real. How many men who are incarcerated find this kind of healing thru acting? Can we truly be reformed/ redeemed without encountering a Higher Power? The directors should get credit for authenticity: they spent alot of time with RTA directors and taught filmmaking to inmates at Sing Sing. This is a quiet but beautiful film that anyone who is interested in theater or Shakespeare would enjoy. “Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self…..” William Shakespeare.