![]() Its strong conviction should click with like-minded audiences in these times of polarized politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() It becomes the emblematic setting for a stand-off between America’s poor and dispossessed on one hand, and an evil mix of the police, an ambitious public prosecutor and the ever-avid media on the other. Though it’s a far cry from the sophisticated filmmaking of Frederick Wiseman’s notable 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Estevez’s The Public is a close relative at least in spirit: Both films suggest that a free public library is the last bastion of a democratic society. In Emilio Estevez’s scrappy feel-good drama The Public, the head librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library becomes an accidental hero when temperatures plunge below freezing and he sides with dozens of homeless men who decide to occupy the library.
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