Sunday, February 02, 2014

Lock Up (1989)

A prisoner nearing the completion of his term for a minor crime is transferred to another prison run by a man with a deep grudge against him.

Prison drama expounding the political opposition of individualism versus civilization, the fundamental dilemmma of which is hammered down the viewer's head in a histerically exaggerated and repetitive manner. If all institutions are corrupt - it implies - fighting them in a more than strictly individualistic way will inevitably be corrupted too. The way these things are resolved in movies like this is always felicitous for the protagonist and unsatisfactory for the viewer.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

Rating: 33

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