After the Raid (2019) User Reviews

Too little

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 15 March 2020]

It's not just the run time (that can be quite nice, if you get everything you want), but in this case you don't. It's a shame because you get the obvious, a sort of general idea, instead of going in depth about the specific raid and how it affected people (many people if not all would have been ideal, not just the generalization this makes).

Still I reckon for some this might be eye opening, so maybe it does some good bringing awareness, even if it is only in a smaller degree ...

Never Accomplished Its Stated Objective

[view_and_review · 2/10 · 23 December 2019]

I only heard about this documentary from a news article and thought it would be interesting to watch. The article said that the documentary was about a small Tennessee town that was negatively affected by an ICE raid. At only 25 minutes it's a very short viewing.

I watch documentaries to be informed. I like to be informed about things I wasn't aware of before. The better documentary creators give you the most in depth information.

The title of this short documentary is "After the Raid," except I learned nothing about the town after the raid! Yes, I heard how the current immigration laws are bad, which I expected, but I mostly wanted to see and hear how an ICE raid affected this small Tennessee town. Unless it escaped me, not even the town's name was given. I didn't learn anything: not how the raid was done, how many were rounded up in the raid, what company was targeted, the financial impact, etc. There was too much missing information.

What I did hear was the interview of a woman whose husband was taken, the interview of a local woman that took in a family, and some Catholic services. I get it: ICE and their raids impact immigrant families, tell me something I don't know. This documentary even failed as a human interest story. I don't think I've ever watched a less informative documentary in my life.