The Oscar winner and star of 'The Shawshank Redemption' discusses his Venice entry '45 Seconds of Laughter' as well as projects in the pipeline, including 'a pretty brutal satire about what’s going on right now in the world, what is happening in our country.'
, he takes viewers behind the scenes of this program, offering an up close and personal look into how the program’s techniques have transformed the lives of prisoners in California.
Using characters from the Italian commedia dell’arte, such as the Harlequin and La Signora, to take off the masks that they have been forced to wear while locked up, each workshop ends in a transformation, or "45 seconds of laughter," with Robbins showing how rehabilitation programs and the arts can give men and women a second chance.premieres in Venice on Friday before making its North American debut at the New York Film Festival.
They were telling me in 1993, that they would have two systems. They would have a jail for violent criminals and one for nonviolent criminals. And I said, well if you were a politician, what would you do that effectively would change everything. And they said legalize marijuana. This is ‘93 in the middle of the Midwest. They saw first hand what was happening, which was, you're taking nonviolent criminals, kids that made mistakes, and putting them in jail with violent criminals.
Rehabilitation makes a safer society and a more humane society. Unfortunately, now we’re going in the opposite direction with private prisons that have absolutely no incentive to provide rehabilitation because they make money based on the beds they sell.We have to understand that this isn't just about the way that we treat prisoners. It's also about how we are asking agents of the state to treat prisoners and the effect of that on their lives.
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