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A Gray State
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In 2010 David Crowley, an Iraq veteran, aspiring filmmaker and charismatic up-and-coming voice in fringe politics, began production on his film A Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film's crowd funded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists and members of the nascent alt-right. In January of 2015, Crowley was found dead with his family in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause célèbre for conspiracy theorists who speculate that Crowley was assassinated by a shadowy government concerned about a film and filmmaker that was getting too close to the truth about their aims.
In 2010 David Crowley, an Iraq veteran, aspiring filmmaker and charismatic up-and-coming voice in fringe politics, began production on his film A Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film's crowd funded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists and members of the nascent alt-right. In January of 2015, Crowley was found dead with his family in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause célèbre for conspiracy theorists who speculate that Crowley was assassinated by a shadowy government concerned about a film and filmmaker that was getting too close to the truth about their aims.
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#A Gray State #A Gray State (2017) #Adam Shambour #Chris Peck #Danny August Mason #Erik Nelson #Mason Hendricks #Sean Wright
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November 02, 2017
Erik Nelson's film straddles a fine and admirable line between lurid sensationalism and sober humanism.
November 08, 2017
Even in its more meandering moments it is a gripping, almost unbearably dark watch.
November 02, 2017
Engrossing for the reasons it's also unsatisfying: As Adam Shambour, a friend of Mr. Crowley's, says, it's a mystery that answers all the major questions except "Why?"
November 01, 2017
A story similar to "The Shining" but much scarier because it is true.
December 13, 2017
... the problem with A Gray State remains with how Crowley fails to represent anything beside his own very private conflicts.
November 22, 2017
Unfolding like a more intricately plotted installment of "48 Hours," Erik Nelson's "A Gray State" is a genuinely unsettling examination of a 2015 murder case.
November 04, 2017
This well-crafted doc makes for an absorbingly bizarre footnote. One suspects we are living in a historical epoch that is going to provide many such footnotes for some time to come.
November 02, 2017
A Gray State is a multi-layered essay on how we tell stories, what we watch, and what we fail to see.
May 01, 2017
A tantalising and fascinating real-life story.
November 02, 2017
Clear enough about what happened to be ambiguous about what it means, the film makes only one clean argument: Truth isn't always stranger than fiction, but it's often a hell of a lot sadder.
May 05, 2017
This is a harrowing portrait how easily our own darkness can take us over, if we let it.
November 03, 2017
A real-life tale that's as unsettling as it is precisely of-the-moment.
