'The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd' Review: Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy Are Wrenching in Bold Drama

At one point in the film "The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd," a prison official played by Tim Blake Nelson sighs and says, "I will never understand people." But Nelson is also the writer and director of "Wilson Shedd," a dark and probing drama that you might consider an attempt to understand people, or at least the stories they tell. A bold indie production that draws from the real-life case that also inspired the 2018 miniseries "Escape at Dannemora," the film from veteran character actor, playwright and novelist Nelson scrambles chronology, pulls Ernest Hemingway, Flannery . . .