Film based on real events about a group of prisoners who find in the theater and in the creative process of being actors a way of escape, redemption and personal transformation. Theater as a means to explore one's own humanity, face the difficulties of prison life and have an opportunity for social reintegration. Even vital reintegration. In fact 'The Lives of Sing Sing' It features in its cast several students of the program during the time they were imprisoned in the Sing Sing Correctional Center, one of the most famous maximum security prisons in the world. Through the performing arts, these men manage to see the world as a place worth fighting for and living for. Through rehearsals, Greg Kwedar builds a prison drama with an undoubted indie flavor, simple and direct, highly effective and honest led by Colman Domingo whose imposing presence is reminiscent of that of Idris Elba who portrays the human experience of prisoners, the possibility of find themselves and be happy within the prison walls. Seeing 'The Lives of Sing Sing' It is difficult not to think at some point 'Life sentence'more than anything, and probably for nothing more than the humanistic and hopeful nature of both films, and their ability to reflect the harshness of what it must be like to live in a prison in a subtle, affable, everyday, close and profound way. emotional
'The Lives of Sing Sing' is an inspirational drama about the healing power of art in which its protagonists describe their own lives and their own world in their own words. It is, in fact, both in essence and in practice, a film about men, about people before convicts speaking for themselves and about themselves as men, as people before convicts.
