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Title: So violent, so depressing, so long...
Review: This movie is about a man who is incarcerated unfairly. At least, that's his story and he stuck to it. He is sentenced to a harsh, brutal, horrible French penal colony and the film narrates his many attempts to escape. Almost the entire movie demonstrates how violent and harsh the prison is. You see prisoners beaten, abused, and killed...and that's just by the prison guards. Don't get me started on the fellow prisoners. I kept waiting for something good to happen to the protagonist. WARNING: SPOILERS. When the movie is almost completed we see 5 minutes of a successful escape until he's thrown back in the hoosegow. We then see more abuse until finally in the last TEN SECONDS of the film, a narrator tells us the protagonist successfully escapes. We don't even get to see him succeeding. You have to wade through hours of depressing experiences to finally get to that last 10 seconds. Ugh.
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