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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

9/30/2013

 
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Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer offers more than you might expect.
This film is a surprising look at the three members of punk band Pussy Riot, who were given prison sentences for performing antiestablishment song, Mother of God Drive Putin Away, inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Charged with blasphemy and disrupting the social order, three members face three years in a penal colony for their 40 second disturbance.

The story begins with a laughable rehearsal for an upcoming concert, but quickly draws you in to the reality and importance of what they stand for: It is not the music itself that is important here, but the freedom it represents. The women are not great musicians by any stretch, but that hardly seems an issue.

Throughout interviews and footage of the kangaroo court trial, where you may expect to find three angry, slogan-rambling women, you instead experience the grace of three highly articulate, educated, focused, and determined your women: Even the news of Madonna donning a balaclava and scrawling the band's name across her body during a concert, though acknowledged, doesn't shift their focus.

These women are polite, strong-willed, righteous, and unwavering in their resolve: Unfortunately so, it appears, is the Putin regime.

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