A single, older white woman, clearly in need of peace and her own space, moves into a neighborhood inhabited primarily by young mixed families.
Perfect Neighbor boldly narrates the story of fatal 2023 shooting of Ajike Owens, only through lens of police camera footage and intervention calls and records, leaving the assessment of the situation to us. But the situation is so hard and so easy (for some) to judge that the creators clearly left it open to your interpretation not without a reason but clearly without any bias. After watching the wholeb storie the only thing we know for sure is that everyone involved in this situation crossed some boundaries and unfortunately whole conflict brought us, to crossing the one line nobody should ever cross.
The series explores a topic that contemporary mixed societies grapple with. For reasons often beyond our personal choices, we sometimes live in communities against our will. Often communities and people crush over significantly different social norms and behaviors, leading to daily misunderstandings and often escalating conflicts. In this documentary series we can observe the development and escalation of conflict among neighbors in the local community, to which a new member, with clearly different priorities and needs, has joined.
This documentary series is largely based on police archival footage, body camera records, and recordings of repeated interventions conducted by the police after Susan Lorincz joined the small community in Ocala, Florida.
From the very first moments, we can see the bias of some in the community, and unfortunately, the police as well basically from all the parties involved. The presence of police cameras does not change the fact that we still view the entire situation through the prism of imposed social norms, the “standard interpretation,” and the perspective of the enormous tragedy that this neighborhood conflict has led to.
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