The thudding irony of this long-held mantra is made clear in the opening moments of the Selma director’s latest project with plainly shocking statistics, delivered in an unseen address by Barack Obama: with just 5% of the world’s population, the United States has 25% of its prisoners. ![]() ![]() Ava DuVernay’s 13th bites down on the gristly notion of the USA as ‘The Land of the Free’, chews with bitter discomfort and consequently spits it out, unable to swallow.
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