Dan Niu's shape looks a bit like a young Jobs!
The film is adapted from a real event. I thought it was ridiculous at the first time. What kind of prison escape plan can be so stupidly criticized? But after thinking about it, I think it is reasonable. As the saying goes, "the most dangerous place is the safest place."
After accepting the "target" setting, it can be said that the emotional rendering of the film is very good, using a lot of close-up shots that show details to show the tension of the protagonist and the feeling that the scene is almost out of control.
Several sets of parallel montages are designed to advance the time and speed up the rhythm, and the effect is not bad.
Personally, I feel that the performance of the guards is a bit too much. They are too ferocious and cunning, but they fail to constitute a substantial obstacle to the protagonist's "prison escape" action. And there is no account of how these characters end up (punishment or redemption), which seems to undercut the integrity of these characters.
Overall, the presentation of the story is spot on, but because the story itself is a bit unconvincing (although it's true)
For example, why is the prison door wide open and there is not even a guard at the door, even now there is a security guard at the entrance of the kindergarten
This may have its historical reasons, but I can't accept it myself.
And this makes the film slightly less
Of course, we cannot ignore the film's reflection on "racial segregation", a special historical product of the United States, and the critical and ironic core of "racial discrimination", a still-existing social phenomenon
So I think the archetypal story is great, the film is exciting, but it can't be as great as The Shawshank Redemption.
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