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Beau 2022-03-20 09:01:34

papillon seems to be the name of an island with snakes, worms, rats, ants, crocodiles, miasma swamps, and a purgatory on earth—prison. Prison correction assistant. And the tough guy McQueen ran away with his perseverance, and he was tortured. The most impressive scene is that McQueen was locked up in a single black room like a dog hole. He started to use push-ups and pull-ups to exercise his will and save energy (as Robert In "Taxi Driver", De Niro keeps fit in the apartment and prepares to be an assassin), eats pig-like food, and sticks his head out to get a haircut every once in a while, so that he can talk to the people next door. Tortured like a humanoid,...but the life is constantly fighting, and finally McQueen escapes? Forgot the ending, watched it for too long.
Dustin Hoffman becomes the second protagonist in this film. He has short hair, a prison uniform and round glasses, looking at the camera in confusion. I can't see the eyes behind his lenses. Papillon, and only McQueen is still thinking about getting away.

ps1: It was broadcast on English TV at the beginning, but I didn't watch it all. Recently, the Atv World commercial announced a two-disc commemorative edition, and the HMV was released. Although there is no HMV here, but the D version of the audio and video store in the city's Junye has been sold, and it is imitated in a decent manner.
ps2: Escape from birth and run towards freedom. Prison escape genres include this one, including "Shark Shenk's Redemption", Fa Ge's "Prison", and the similar Jack Nicholson's "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest"... From madhouse=prison to society= Prison, the respite under institutionalization is only for one word: freedom!

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  • Dejon 2021-11-14 08:01:23

    I don’t understand why so many viewers compare this film with Shawshank, and the latter is also compared with Bresson’s "The Last Escape." At least both talk about symbolic "freedom outside the wall" prison. This film mainly describes the prison in a broad sense, that is, this cannibalistic world. The first half of the movie is almost perfect, but the second half is rescued by an indigenous leper and finally betrayed by a nun. The plot is too preaching and lacks the persuasive power of the tragedy.

  • Ward 2022-04-23 07:01:41

    The more I look at Steve McQueen's works, the more I like him, firm and tough, these words belong to him

Papillon quotes

  • Warden Barrot: [to Papillon upon his release from solitary confinement after two years following his first escape attempt] Your term is completed.

  • Warden Barrot: [to Papillon upon his release from solitary confinement after five years following his second escape attempt] Your five years in solitary confinement are at an end. You've paid part of your debt to France.