Eugene Jarecki?s documentary The House I Live In is a stark examination of the impact drugs and the war on drugs are having on America. He begins by developing his own personal attachment to the issue. Growing up, he was close friends with the family of his housemaid, an African-American woman named Nannie. But as Nannie?s kids got older, Jarecki grew away from them. Then, he discovered, each member of Nannie?s family began wrestling with drugs, addiction, legal troubles, and premature death. How did this happen? The filmmaker?s effort to answer that seemingly straightforward question draws us into the impossible complex and destructive role drugs play in American society.
Perhaps what is most impressive about Jarecki?s effort is that it is so loaded down with history, statistics, and personalities that it doesn?t break apart at the seams. He interviews police, prison guards, dealers, former drug abusers, judges, scholars, lawyers, family members, and just about every kind of person affected by the war on drugs. Yet the harder Jarecki searches, the more elusive answers become. If anything is clear by the film?s end is that the way we have battled the drug trade since the Nixon administration has only served to create and sustain a reliance on the black market economy of drugs among the urban poor, while harsh penalties enacted by tough-on-crime politicians have ensured that cycle is nearly impossible to break. The House I Live In?doesn?t?offer much by way of a hopeful way forward. But then the first way to conquering an addiction is admitting you have a problem.
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