Documentary summary

For my documentary paper, I chose to watch After Innocence. This documentary follows several wrongly imprisoned men on their journey of gaining freedom through DNA testing.  I, personally, loved this movie.  Movies that can make you laugh at one point, cry at another, and make you want to punch the screen a second later are movies that I really enjoy and this had all three of those plus some.
While watching this documentary, I tried to put myself in the prisoner's shoes as well as those of them who accused them.  The descriptions that the men made of when they were in prison were so vivid to me, but I still don't think I fully understand how they felt when they were in there. I'm not sure if I ever will.  Stepping into the shoes of the people who accused them, mostly those who picked their faces out from a line-up of people, was easy for me.  When I was in seventh grade one of my cousins was killed in the Tinley Park Lane Bryant murders.  The man who killed her and the other women was never caught, but I would do everything in my power to find him and put him behind bars.  I can easily see how a witness or victim could pick someone who looks similar to the actual person who did something to them, thinking it was the real person.  Sometimes you make rash decisions because you try to make yourself feel better or, in these cases, safe.  If a man was put behind bars for my cousin's death, I would want DNA testing done to make sure it's the man.  I think a big part of the reason I want this done is because of watching After Innocence.  I don't think anyone should go through what those men and so many other have gone through.