Hope is a powerful motivator, but so is guilt. The interrupters are the patient zeroes of a potential cure, individuals who found a way within themselves to inhibit the causes of violent behavior and who struggle to translate it for a world that enables the whims of the slighted and the vengeful.
The organization is built on the theory that the spread of violence exhibits a pattern similar to that of an infectious disease. CeaseFire allows them to turn this burden into a tool for change. All of them carry the burden of a past that involves gang membership, or drug dealing, or unspeakable acts of violence. Of course, to the three interrupters profiled by James over the course of a year, sacrifice is as familiar as a brother or sister. Putting themselves in harm's way on a daily basis, they embody what the government and many of their neighbors seem unable or unwilling to comprehend - sacrifice. Into the breach step the members of CeaseFire, the specialized "violence interrupters" that give the film its title. "War zone" is often a reductive way of describing America's most beleaguered urban communities, but it almost fits the South Side neighborhoods examined by accomplished documentarian Steve James ( Hoop Dreams ).
There's a fact dropped very casually at the beginning of The Interrupters, from the voice of an unseen news anchor, that the annual number of murder victims in Chicago has surpassed the annual number of American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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