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Ava Duvernay's original netflix documentary, the 13th, released in 2016,

analyzes the history of racial inequality in the United States

throughout the past and present, focusing on the racial discrimination

around african americans.

The documentary enforces the audience to pay attention and analyze

all the topics discussed.

The atlantic and news company discussed whether the contradicting pairs

with the African american truth is sentencing being personal property,

slave freed people, person, labour, forced prison worker.

As of 2016.

When the documentary was released, There were 2.3 million prisoners

in the United States Where it has remained roughly the

same at a staggering 2.2 million American prisoners in the

justice system.

The civil rights movement started in 1954 discloses a statement

that black lives matter and should be just as a

concern as any other race.

However, African americans are still being questioned on the worth

of their lives.

Duvernay's documentary, The 13th, discusses the correlation with the 13th

Amendment and how although there were laws in place to

stop slavery from continuing slavery throughout the United States, never

truly went away completely.

And the distinct racism and slavery acts lasting up All

throughout the 21st century.

The civil rights movement birth the nation, in a way

where the countries of the world had heard about the

movement, it is clear that throughout the justice system, the

major use of gas lighting and manipulation is being used

to justify the acts of the police officers on the

criminals, no matter the evidence that is shown and how

little they may have of it.

The types of power seemed throughout the 13th and the

green mile includes coercive and legitimate power.

It has shown that in the prisons, these two types

of power are most common being held in prisons and

seen in the Green Mile and execution prison.

Coercive power is being represented due to the fact that

nearly all these prisoners are kept in there due to

the, due to the inhumane acts they have committed, giving

the guards and directors of reason in their eyes to

punish the prisoners.

Reverend power is displayed when paul edge comb is seen

shaking hands with john coffee, forming the relationship of trust

and respect to later on be shown when paul advises

john to sneak out with the guards in order to

help warden hal moore's wife.

The relationship between john and Paul progresses throughout the film

to an almost friendship has formed and the scene clearly

by the respect of each other at the end of

the film where john Coffey is executed for another man's

actions, who was also seen in the execution prison with

john, the act where john exclaims he does not want

the mask to be over him due to being afraid

of the dark and paul allows him to not wear

it throughout the process, the characters convey a significant empathetic

bond with john coffee and Edward Dellacqua unlike the relationship

between the guards and wild bill Walton.

Whereas legitimate power was the only type displayed when dealing

with Jordan.

The same type of coercive power is seen to be

demonstrated all throughout the 13th when the prisoners were kept

away and therefore treated horribly for actions.

They may have not done all cause due to racism

presented by police officers and the townsfolk in neighborhoods.

It is said that her documentary 13th is a powerful

look at how the modern day prison labor system links

to slavery, which can describe limpy by a sentence, how

harshly the prisoners were treated, displaying coercive power.

The documentary conveys a genuine acts of power of police

officers compared to African americans lives in the United States

and the criminal justice system, not protecting them legitimate power

can also be represented through the general knowledge people have

of police officers, positions and obligations.

The commentary throughout the documentary is formed from a range

of high expert on the topic, including civil rights activist

Angela Davis, the new Yorker, Jelani Cobb, former House Speaker

Newt Gingrich, Rep Charles, B.

Rangel Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, former Obama administration

official Van jones and conservative tax reform advocate Grover Norquist

Michelle alexander discusses the analytical war started by Richard Nixon

and later on then advanced by Ronald Reagan.

That then had escalated the argument to the nearly becoming

a legitimate war.

Mhm Personal and formal power is both displayed in the

justice system alongside the documentary and highlighted throughout the Green

Mile. Personal power being related to the followers of an

act or person for example, uh huh in the documentary

the 13th, it is shown that the people being a

follower to a mass idea that circulates globally can have

an impact on the people.

The idea or argument is against formal power being one

of the most forceful types can lead people to think

and act based on higher authorities and following someone due

to position whether it be a higher social class or

someone superior to you.

The power of fiction is telling the unspeakable and giving

voice to unheard and unseen realities with which we have

been faced.

The fact of fiction is that there is no truth,

There is nothing to be bound to in what is

limitless. This makes the expression of types of power and

racism to its fullest extent and truth as power is

done. Best demonstrated in a way that is unimaginable.

This is why Documentaries and films such as the 13th

and the green mile have such a big importance as

they are able to convey ways of power that are

otherwise unthinkable in a normal fictional way.

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