Word: borstals
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...deco decor, Miami is the city to which all Jonathan Demme films aspire. Married to the Mob ended up there, long after Baldwin had played his memorable cameo as a Mafia stiff. Funny thing is that Demme only produced Miami Blues; his colleague from the Roger Corman B-movie Borstal of the '70s, George Armitage, is the writer-director. Funnier still, Armitage has one-upped his old pal. Whereas Demme's movies punctuate flaky comedy with explosions of violence, Miami Blues blends the two moods in a savory tropical cocktail. What makes the taste so tangy...
Somehow one does not think that civilized old England has a prison system seriously in need of the services of Brubaker, the reform-minded prison warden recently portrayed by Robert Redford. But aside from the fact that the Borstal, a juvenile facility, in Scum is neat and clean, unlike the pigsty prison farm in Brubaker, the two institutions are identical...
...rules over his section) provides the plot with such movement as it has. There is an implication that Carlin's rule may be slightly more humane than that of the Daddy he has literally beaten out of the job, but so severe are the limits both of the Borstal and of his own spirit that his emergence is not a hopeful sign...
...Borstal Boy. A foaming mugful of the bitter, cheery malt of Brendan Behan's life...
...Borstal Boy is full of the warm stuff of life, brave and craven, joyous and sorrowing, abased one moment and noble the next. You don't have to be Irish to laugh and cry with it. The human heartbeat has no brogue...