Analyzing Paul T. Scheuring's Prison Break

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The television series Prison Break, directed by Paul T. Scheuring was a hit in 2005. The plot in season one revolves around two brothers. One of the brothers was imprisoned for a crime that he did not commit and his genius younger brother, who plans to break his older brother out of prison by imprisoning himself.

When I saw this visual text, I felt nervous . I felt this because you always feel like things are going to go wrong. For example when the doctor was locked in her office while the inmates were trying to get to her during the prison riot. I feel that this makes me nervous because the doctor is an important character in the visual text and you don't want her to get hurt.

An interesting that this visual text made me think about was how unsafe the prison really is. The director seemed to be
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The director seemed to be suggesting that there are more and more dirty cops and prison guards out there. We see this in the visual text when the head prison guard blackmails the old prison mate for information. He threatens to ruin him if he doesn't ging him the information but he also knows that if he gives the information the old man will be killed. The old man did not give him the information so the guard killed his cat. This shows us that the people that we look to for safety can sometimes be corrupt and abuse the power that they have over us. I think this is scary because they can demand anything of us and we have to do it or we could be fined or put in jail. I think this is wrong because it can endanger lives of innocent people. We need to root out the corrupt police and politicians and remove them from society. Overall, this visual text is an accurate representation of real prison. I think that the director has done a good job of creating a series that really immerses you in the prison scene. The visual text really make me question how real prisons are

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