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...characterization is interesting: he is a quiet, fairly bright middle-class wife killer who doesn't fit in the underclass prison society. One of the better scenes takes place in a group therapy session, in which the other cons (most of them actually inmates at the Rockview State Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, where the film was shot) goad Juleson into talking about his wife...
...film is visually convincing; the faces are those of defeated men, and Rockview's cells and exercise yard are appropriately bleak. Brutality by guards is dealt with, but gingerly, and the coercive homosexuality in prisons is simply ignored, as is tension between black and white inmates. Realism fails partly because some of the principal characters, Chilly among them, are made a bit too likable by the story's occasional tendency to break down into bad guy-good guy situations. But the most important lapse is simply that the workings of the plot, which involves a not very believable...
...HILLIARD '94, 92 Rockview street, Jamaica Plain.84...
...HILLIARD '94, 92 Rockview street, Jamaica Plain.84...
...HILLIARD '94, 92 Rockview street, Jamaica Plain.84...
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