Punishment Park

Punishment Park

  • Director: Peter Watkins
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 10, 1972
  • Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Strafpark
  • Punishment Park is a drama film directed by Peter Watkin.

    Details

    • Release date February 10, 1972
    • Filming locations San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA
    • Production companies Churchill Films, Françoise Films

    Movie reviews

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    • By Jefferey 2022-10-22 21:50:56

      Punishment you can never say NO


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    • By Bonnie 2022-10-22 21:47:44

      Passionate

      It was filmed in 1971 and was banned by the BBC until 2005. Incitement is better than the Red Guards.
      There is a saying: the wealth of this country is enough to support everyone, why are there still people struggling on the line of life and death? The


      police are bored and play a game. He said that he wanted to play this game with you
      and run to the national flag for a reward, but if you couldn't get to the shooting,
      there was a small print at the end called...

    • By Paula 2022-10-22 18:31:26

      The third language between reality and fiction

        The truth and the lie are only one step away, but what is the bridge built within this step? That is, what is the language system that operates between truth and lies? Peter Watkins' films seem to be talking about this all the time. In Punishment Park, on the one hand, he explained the specific time and historical background to us; on the other hand, he told a bizarre story, which made people dare not fully believe its authenticity. The same is true for the subsequent biopic "Edward...

    • By Lottie 2022-10-22 15:08:53

      Reality from a performance perspective

      Acting cannot bring "truth".

      The film uses a "documentary" approach, changing the essential problem of performance. That is to say, the performance is transformed into performance through "documentary" - the real problem is not the unbelievable exaggeration presented on the screen, but that it breaks the visual logic preset by the performance, that is, through the performance of characters to interpret a story. The story is no longer involved here, but the level of emotion is...

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    • By Junior 2023-09-24 13:49:06

      It's at least twenty years ahead of its...

    • By Shawna 2023-08-31 03:57:13

      Ok but not for my taste and too...

    • By Helmer 2023-08-21 18:05:40

      1. Filmed in 1971, directed at the Nixon administration at that time, the courage of the director is commendable! 2. The authenticity and reliability of the incident are unknown and cannot be commented. 3. Pseudo-documentary style, with a single narrative technique, which is a simple two-line narrative. 4. The rhythm is chaotic and the viewing is...

    • By Marie 2023-05-09 02:58:34

      Completion of Peter Watkin's feature film, the background of the film is the United States in the early 1970s. With the escalation of the Vietnam War and the growing voice of domestic protests, Nixon activated the McClen Security Act to deal with domestic emergencies and established secret isolation camps , it can put all leftist radicals in jail without congressional approval and without any evidence. The director uses real history to create a fictional desert isolation camp in southwestern...

    • By Forrest 2023-05-02 04:18:40

      Political fake...

    Movie plot

    In the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War escalated and domestic protests grew louder, President Nixon launched the McCarran Act, enacted in the 1950s, to deal with domestic emergencies and to establish secret isolation camps that could Congressional approval can put those anti-war activists, radicals and even pacifists in jail without even any trial or evidence. In the vast desert of southwestern California, there is such an isolation...
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    Movie quotes

    • Documentarist: [while the US-Flag is waving in the desert:] Under the provision of Title 2 of the 1950 Internal Security Act, also known as the McCarran Act, the President of the United States of America is still authorized, without further approval by Congress to determine an event of insurrection within the United States and to declare the existence of an "internal security emergency". The President is then authorized to apprehend and detain each person as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe probably will engage in certain future acts of sabotage. Persons apprehended shall be given a hearing, without right of bail, without the necessity of evidence and shall then be confined to places of detention.

    • James Arthur Kohler, Tribunal Defendant: My responsibilities as a citizen in this country do not include killing for it.

    • James Daly, Defense Attorney: Ladies and Gentlemen of the tribunal, I would like to read you something: "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order or our nation cannot survive". We might all be forgiven for supposing those to be the words of our President. But they are not. Those words were uttered in 1932 by Adolf Hitler.

      Defendant Lee Robert Brown: Sieg motherfucking Heil!

      James Daly, Defense Attorney: We know what kind of law and order followed in that country.