Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Susan Lorencs described herself as a perfect neighbor in one of her numerous nuisance calls to police. She constantly complained about the neighbor kids playing near her apartment, escalating her verbal rhetoric over the course of a year until it reached an inevitably violent end, documented painstakingly through body cam footage of the police responding to her calls.
This was absolutely infuriating to watch. It is a portrait of entitlement and racism. Like, I get being an antisocial curmudgeon. The sound of children's laughter also grates on my nerves. Do I feel like the Grinch looking down over Whoville every time children scream with joy as they sled down the embankment behind my house? Yes. Do I go out and threaten them or yell racial slurs? No. Because I am an adult who recognizes that they are CHILDREN and that it is a fucking privilege to have them feel safe enough to play. And this bitch destroyed a group of children's safety because they were Playing While Black.
This is streaming on Netflix but I am honestly cautioning you if you are sensitive to children being threatened. It felt a little exploitative when it lingered on the grieving relatives, but I get it. They're trying to show the extent of the impact.
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