Aaron (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director.
In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the land to keep the family working for them, putting the transfer of the land in doubt.
From Publishers Weekly The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by Kotlowitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and seven, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.
Восьмилетний чернокожий Девин становится свидетелем преступления наркомафии. Он соглашается рассказать обо всем полиции, если ему разрешат подежурить в патрульной машине и дадут настоящие полицейские атрибуты — значок и наручники. Напарником Девина становится опытный полицейский МакКена, не имеющий большого опыта общения с детьми и поэтому с трудом выносящий восторженного мальчишку…
