My mom was brave in a lot of ways, but she could be a scared white woman, just as her mother taught her to be. Her sisters and mine got tired of being scared and started getting pissed, and “The Perfect Neighbor” is exactly the kind of movie that should piss you off.
Director Geeta Gandbhir's critically acclaimed documentary throws you head-first into senseless tragedy before making an abrupt heel-turn through time to plop us directly into the neighborhood at the heart of it all.
Footage from phone cameras, security tapes, 911 recordings, and most notably, police body cameras lets audiences see first-hand the kind of community found in one Ocala, Florida neighborhood. The kind of place where parents watch each other’s kids, and neighbors are actually neighborly. Well, most of them, at an