The background of each prisoner's story? that's not important. A magical saw blade that transcends common sense? That doesn't matter either. A jailbreak process full of loopholes and crude and simple means of jailbreak means that "jailbreak" itself is only a context and a carrier.
What is the film about? We might as well call it "objective justice (legal justice)" and "human justice (absolute justice)".
I've never seen a movie where the villain wins (except tragic horror etc.), so I've always been convinced that the 4 prisoners with no backstory will never make it out. Therefore, it is inevitable that they will be caught. This is objective justice, legal justice. On this basis, the question raised by the film is whether Gaspard's sale of his teammates is absolutely just.
(The story takes a sharp turn at the end, and the small mirror, as the first and last escape prop to appear, shakes a very beautiful burden-the sudden appearance of a large team of prison guards surprised everyone.)
According to common sense, Prisoners do not possess the attributes of justice. This is a profound problem, for example, some students in a class are often considered as "bad students" because they do not study well or like to speak loudly, so what he does becomes a bad thing and is not considered to be able to do good thing.
The movie instead emphasizes "absolute justice" - the plumber being repaired. This unreasonable passage tells the audience that the two opposing roles of prison guard and prisoner can stand together.
In the final moments, the captured fugitive and the police stand again on the same high point of justice, "Poor Gaspard." And the warden, who had always loved Gaspard, didn't even look at him, and pointed to his new cell with disdain. At this moment, there was only one sinner, and that was Gaspard who betrayed his friend.
This emotional tendency is very obvious. At the beginning of the film, Rowland "tells us this story" with a smile on his face, explaining that they are finally released (whether it is another escape or a full sentence), as the winner (because his only purpose in the whole film is to Released from Prison) tells us the story of the losers (whether or not Gasparbod has been released, at least not at the time of the betrayal).
This start is really good. At the beginning, you will think that they have finally escaped successfully, and then just show the excitement of jailbreaking, but the result is unexpected. This is also a trap for the audience to predict.
(Finally, recall what they saw standing in the manhole cover—the faraway prison walls, the neat tarmac, the taxis passing by, the most liberating sight I’ve ever seen, as if I could smell it To the smell of freedom. So fresh and happy.)
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