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...wash” strike, their demands were not met until Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender, “Band of Brothers”) led a hunger strike in 1981, ending successfully seven months later after the deaths of 10 men. The film has three major movements: scenes of the prisoners?? daily lives in the Maze, a long conversation between Sands and a priest, and the slow deterioration of Sands’ body. Within these three parts, the simplicity of the plot gains striking power from the horrifying images onscreen. Without warning, McQueen immediately throws the viewer into the depths...
...forth that characterizes most of the movie. It is interesting, however, to see what Perry makes of Madea in jail. Although the movie culminates in Perry’s traditional Christian salvation for his honest, hard-working characters, the irreverent Madea ironically becomes the moral authority over the prisoners??the only person who lectures the inmates, except the prison’s minister. For the prisoners, Madea’s words of advice—“Everybody’s got a life and what you do with that life is up to you?...
...imprisonment upon suspicion of homosexual conduct. Even more shocking was the well-worn statement issued by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW): merely, that the Senegalese state had violated Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine of natural rights demanded that the prisoners?? shackles be burst asunder post-haste.If human rights advocates are to establish a relevant global code of ethics, they must jettison this language of abstract rights in favor of a consensus anchored in the universalist elements of cultures around the world. Advocates must sincerely acknowledge cultural context in order...
...prisoners are willfully donating their organs to “society” (i.e. to rich Westerners) is tenuous at best. In a country where convicts are often taken directly from the courtroom to the execution ground and due process is a figment of the imagination, ethical considerations about prisoners?? rights seem a bit out of place. Indeed, Hayes’ conversation with the father of an executed prisoner highlights this reality. When asked whether his son ever consulted with him about donating his organs after his execution, the father replies, “I didn?...
...Western apathy toward non-Western abuses is the ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners?? rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...