DUI: Dead in 5 Seconds

Unlike other tapes that discourage drinking and driving, this one neither concentrates on the physiology or chemistry involved in alcohol consumption, nor lectures on the dangers of the practice. Instead, it presents MTV-style quick shots, split-screens, fade-outs, and occasionally black-and-white film, mixed with an interview with a convicted murderer and the father of the teen that he killed. While there is no narration, and the story is a bit hard to follow at first, the program viscerally delivers the message that killing someone while you're drunk causes incalculable heartbreak in the families and friends of both the victim(s) and the driver. Particularly effective is the segment in which scenes of a teen boy being treated in an emergency room are spliced together with scenes of another boy, covered with blood, being arrested and booked at a jail, concluding with subsequent comments and a remorseful letter from that lonely driver. Recommended. Aud: H, P. (K. Glaser)