A good movie can have a grand world view and a complex background, such as The Matrix. It can also be as simple as describing the 25 hours before a person goes to jail.
The main theme of the film is "transcendence". In that extra hour of the day. Everyone can imagine their own life and escape objective reality. The male protagonist, Monty, fantasizes about escaping from prison, running to the American West in the outdoor paradise, no longer being a criminal, and living his life like an ordinary person. The rich friend of the male protagonist imagined that if he had advised the male protagonist to wash his hands early, he would not end up where he is now. College teacher loves her hot student and fantasizes about kissing her. Schoolgirls fantasize about escaping reality and writhing on the dance floor. The hero and girlfriend fantasize about the scene where they met him for the first time. The dog named Doer imagined that he was rescued by a kind-hearted person and lived a life of being walked by someone again.
It doesn't matter if everything in the footage is real or fake. The important thing is that we can all feel the "detachment" that the director wants to convey. Also, the fear of prison.
Is the prison really as scary as it is described in the movie? Going in is like committing suicide.
At first I thought that only American prisons were full of violence. Later, when words such as "washing face to death", "skeleton death" and "hide-and-seek incident" came into my eyes on the Internet, I realized that once a person is deprived of his freedom of life. His life was of no consequence.
The film didn't show the violence in real prisons, but it made me fear prisons.
Five stars, given.
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