A good man who was supposed to have a good life burst this bubble due to an unexpected car accident.
The protagonist has to abide by the additional "rules and regulations" in the prison when he enters the prison, and the gang and racial struggle become the daily focus. The price of not joining is to be tortured to the point of spiritual death, and once you join, you will never be able to quit, unless you exchange your family and your own life for freedom for a moment after quitting. (It is said that the price of the Japanese Yamaguchi-gumi members quitting the organization is a finger.)
The film satirizes the darkness and futility of the prison system. A man who was supposed to be released on parole in 5 months has no choice but to fall into a bottomless pit and become a victim of the prison and the legal system.
For the sake of his family outside the wall, the male protagonist has to climb up step by step, and step by step sinks himself into a deeper quagmire. And he had to cut off contact with his family and bear the loneliness and "glory" by himself.
Even if he achieves the position of the boss, the identity of the former boss "Beast" is not clearly explained. From the details in the film, he is also a smart man. He always reads books so that the prison does not defeat him. Tool of.
The protagonist "Money" is destined to take the path of his predecessor "The Beast", an endless cycle - once the good person or the bad person falls into this prison, since they can't exit, they will move forward, and in the end the waves will beat the waves before death - as long as the prison exists , someone must take his old path to take his place. However, the film came to an abrupt end in a happy atmosphere, leaving this sad blank for the audience.
I found that many film critics did not mention it. In fact, the film raised an invisible question. If there is no prison, what should replace the prison to end the endless cycle in prison?
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(The U.S. has less than 5% of the world's population, but it holds more than 2.3 million criminals. Ironically, at this proportion of the population, on average, every 35 U.S. adults in this nation of freedom A person is either serving a sentence in prison, or is on parole or probation. The per capita incarceration rate has reached the highest in the world, five times that of the United Kingdom, nine times that of Germany, and 14 times that of Japan. The latest report of the US Bureau of Justice Statistics 2014 76% of offenders released from prisons in most states across the U.S. are re-arrested within five years for a new crime or parole violation.)
The more freedom you have, the more rules you have, and the more likely you are to go to jail.
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