{"id":412040,"date":"2022-03-04T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T07:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-2nd-chance-review-ramin-bahranis-weirdly-arresting-documentary\/"},"modified":"2022-03-04T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T07:08:54","slug":"watch-2nd-chance-review-ramin-bahranis-weirdly-arresting-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2nd-chance-review-ramin-bahranis-weirdly-arresting-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;2nd Chance&#8217; Review: Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s Weirdly Arresting Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ab7b1a2648\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ab7b1a2648\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2nd-chance-review-ramin-bahranis-weirdly-arresting-documentary\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982nd_Chance_Review_Ramin_Bahranis_Weirdly_Arresting_Documentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2nd Chance&#8217; Review: Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s Weirdly Arresting Documentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2nd-chance-review-ramin-bahranis-weirdly-arresting-documentary\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982nd_Chance_Review_Ramin_Bahranis_Weirdly_Arresting_Documentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;2nd Chance&#8217; Review: Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s Weirdly Arresting Documentary&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982nd_Chance_Review_Ramin_Bahranis_Weirdly_Arresting_Documentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2nd Chance&#8217; Review: Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s Weirdly Arresting Documentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982nd_Chance_Review_Ramin_Bahranis_Weirdly_Arresting_Documentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;2nd Chance&#8217; Review: Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s Weirdly Arresting Documentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201c2nd Chance\u201d may be the best Errol Morris movie that Errol Morris never made. It\u2019s the first documentary feature directed by Ramin Bahrani, who has often brought a real-world edge to his dramas (\u201cThe White Tiger,\u201d \u201cChop Shop\u201d), and the figure at the film\u2019s center could be a true-life character out of Morris land \u2014 one of those rational-on-the-surface, only-in-America compartmentalized crackpot geeks whose hidden dark depths just about scream, \u201cLook out, I\u2018m a walking nonfiction metaphor!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c2nd Chance,\u201d that character is one Richard Davis, who invented the bulletproof vest as we know it. He did it in the 1970s, and the way he did it was <em>very<\/em> \u201970s: by putting on a prototype version of his invention, grabbing a gun with both hands, and shooting himself in the chest. He did that (and filmed it) 192 times \u2014 as a scientific demonstration, as a publicity stunt, and as a way to hawk his vests to U.S. law enforcement and the military. Each time he did it, the bullets bounced right off him, and that became the basis of the Second Chance Body Armor Company, which he set up in a small town in northern Michigan, employing most of the people in the area, until he effectively became the king of the town.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c2nd Chance,\u201d Davis, now in his mid-70s, with a youthful nerdish jocularity, is interviewed on a small worn leather couch, seated in front of wood paneling in what looks like a rather depressing rec room, his hands clasped as he speaks in his friendly yet detached overemphatic style. It\u2019s very much a bug-pinned-by-the-camera Errol Morris setup; the movie lets you feel like you can study Davis.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just what you want to do, since there\u2019s an enigma at the heart of this man, who in the home-movie shorts he directed and starred in 50 years ago comes off as an eager, balding, out-of-shape doofus who clearly had a thing about guns. The shorts, with titles like \u201cSecond Chance vs. U.A.P.\u201d (which stands for \u201cUnorganized Asshole Punks\u201d), feature re-enactments of police shootings shot in a style that suggests \u201cCops\u201d crossed with \u201cSuper Troopers,\u201d though with the deliberate echo of a Dirty Harry righteous-cops-good\/criminal-scum-bad executioner\u2019s view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Before Davis came along, there were bulletproof vests, but they were bulky and heavy \u2014 flak jackets you couldn\u2019t conceal. Davis saw the need to create a thin, light vest that could be worn invisibly and that was comfortable enough to be used on a daily basis. For a while, he owned the landscape (though he inevitably had competitors). But apart from how commercially successful he was, he had created a revolutionary product, one that could radically cut down on the odds of a police officer, during a violent confrontation, getting killed.<\/p>\n<p>How do you repel a bullet without a metal plate? It\u2019s a physics problem, and also a philosophical problem. Davis, who\u2019d had one year at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, got a roll of nylon and designed a vest that did the trick. We see his intricate scientific sketches, though we never quite learn the logistics of how it worked. Bahrani is more interested in how the invention flowed out of Davis\u2019s character \u2014 this man who was the definition of unthreatening and would therefore be one to obsess, more than others, over the question of armor, like a turtle inventing a new kind of shell.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u2019s odyssey comes, as these things tend to, with an origin story. In 1969, when he owned a pair of pizza shops, one on Seven Mile Road in Detroit, he was held up in a driveway by two men during a delivery; he\u2019d brought a .22 with him, and used it, but got shot in the leg and the right temple. This launched him, Davis says, on a mission of protection. He wanted to save lives. And he did. But later in the film, Bahrani investigates that incident; he can find no police record of it (and no sign of a bullet scar in Davis\u2019s wedding photos). He also investigates the fact that one of Davis\u2019s pizza shops was burned to the ground in an act of arson, which Davis says he couldn\u2019t have had anything to do with because he had no insurance. Bahrini discovers that just one week before the fire, Davis, in fact, took out an insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p>But the ultimate deception in Richard Davis\u2019 life was one of the spirit \u2014 a mingling of compassion and cruelty. He kept a record, in the form of a mimeographed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter, of every police officer his vests had saved. Doing this was part of his business (he was selling safety), but it was also a way of playing God. Davis became an unabashed firearms fanatic, with cronies who made themselves into a kind of frat-house militia, blowing shit up and unleashing deafening torrents of ammo in the Michigan back country \u2014 all \u201charmless,\u201d yet expressing a kind of over-the-top aggression. That Davis was such a showman is part of what made him a rambunctious businessman. But it was also unsettling. When 9\/11 h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened, it proved to be a bonanza for Second Chance. The U.S. armed forces stocked up on his vests \u2014 and Davis had a new-and-improved fiber <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>: zylon, which was lighter, thinner, stronger. It was advertised as Kevlar on steroids.<\/p>\n<p>But there was a problem. Over time, zylon degraded. Davis, who owned 51 percent of Second Chance, had the power to withdraw the vests from the market at any time, but he hesitated. And that was a weaselly decision that became a disaster. The film likens the situation to that of Ford continuing to sell the Pinto after it learned that the fuel tank located in the rear of the vehicle was, in fact, dangerously combustible. \u201c2nd Chance\u201d takes us into the life of a police officer who died because the bullets penetrated his vest, something that Davis lies about on camera. He had saved (by his count) a thousand lives. But now, suddenly, God had blood on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2nd Chance\u201d is a piece of perverse Americana, and what\u2019s weirdly gripping about it is that it turns into a moral tale: the story of a man we think of as a goof, then a sharp inventor, then a deceiver and narcissist, then a passive-aggressive megalomaniac, culminating in the situation that defines his moral fiber \u2014 the day he learned the fibers in the vest he was promoting were, in fact, falling apart. 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