Jessica Sanders 'After Innocence': Film Analysis

Documentaries are created to demonstrate the reality and educate society. In the documentary After Innocence directed by Jessica Sanders, innocent people were coming out of jail due to newly acquired DNA testing proving their innocence. Hundreds of people have been found guilty and have been locked up in prison, but this documentary demonstrates how years later with DNA testing these former prisoners can be freed. Although the 2005 documentary After Innocence explains how there is hope for those who were falsely accused of committing crimes, it also demonstrates the struggles they have to face coming back to the real world. The film follows some that have been exonerated from prison to witness their new life. At the beginning of the documentary, it is shown of some falsely accused criminals getting out of prison seeing their families for the first time. The first scene is watching them come out of jail crying with their families providing the audience with a sense of guilt for them being locked up for all of those years and proves that this actually exists and is heartbreaking, not only the one being viewed as a criminal but for their family. Through multiple people shown throughout the film establishes its credibility …show more content…
It explains the shift in their life from before and after they were exonerated. It provides evidence that there are still others facing these hardships and suffering. It has those that are now out of jail explain what they plan on doing now and the difficulties they have faced in their community. It is to have the audience feel the pain and frustration along those actually dealing with the struggles. The audience just like those in the documentary is hoping for them to have a better future and deal with the difficulties they faced in jail throughout previous