In “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,” everything that might (hope against hope) go right doesn’t. Everything that could go wrong does, prompted by the disregard, bias or outright bigotry that ha…
have delivered a taut, emotionally excruciating drama based on the police shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in White Plains, N.Y., in the early morning hours of November 19, 2011. “Hours” is something of an overstatement: The 83-minute movie approximates the real-time duration of the unfolding tragedy, which began around 5:22 a.m. and ended about an hour and a half after police arrived at the veteran’s apartment.
Faison creates a portrait of profound nuance. He navigates an onslaught of vulnerabilities: psychological, physical and racial. Kenneth’s confused about why the Medical Alert company is calling him. He’s even more flummoxed when the police knock on his door to do a welfare check. He’s not physically well , and he’d like to get some sleep, but otherwise he’s fine. The conversation conducted through a closed door begins calmly enough, but soon the police are banging hard and shouting questions.
In “The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain,” the three officers who arrive at the apartment on Lexington Ave. are not of one mind. Sgt. Parks and Officer Jackson walk into the foyer making disparaging remarks about the people living there. Officer Rossi is a different matter. Played by Enrico Natale , Rossi expresses concern with a rationality that will tease the hopes of viewers, but merely marks him as soft to the other two cops.
The director makes a visual and aural distinction between the tight hallway outside the door and inside Chamberlain’s apartment. The lighting in his cluttered home is yellow-amber. The hallway lights are fluorescent. Inside that dwelling — inside his head? — the sounds from the other side of the door are distorted. He wears hearing aids, and in an astute move, the noises that sometimes overtake Chamberlain sound like the kind of abrupt and whining feedback hearing aids can give off.
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