The Influence Of Movies In Prisons

When you look at movies they depict what people want to see. Some want to see tear jerker movies, or what some would call “girly movies. Some want to watch movies that have strong women roles likes, “Charlies Angels”. Some want to watch horror movies like, “Texas Change Saw Massacre”. Now the majority of people want to watch movies with guns, fast cars, sexy women or sexy men and violence. Within these type of movies there is always drugs or sex involved. When you get to these type of movies unfortunately our children are watching these with or without their parent’s permission. Now days parents have to spend a lot of time outside the home working two or more jobs just to make ends meet. Our children tend to want to mock the characters in these movies and unfortunately end up in prison. Often the children that end up in prison have some sort of belief that prison is just a place to due time and then get released into a world that will glorify you because of their time spent in prison. …show more content…
Movies that show what life is like in prison have done a good job on telling their audience that life in prison is nothing to be glorified about. One prison movie that comes to mind is, “American Me.” Which was released back in March of 1992 with the main character of Montoya Santana played by Edward James Olmos. Edward Olmos spent most of his juvenile life in reform school and then gets a 18 year prison term. Edward Olmos spends his time in jail fighting and working his way to the top of the prison gang. In this movie Edward Olmos witness several beatings, killings and sexual assaults while he is in prison. This movie is horrible but depicts the true life of prisoners in today’s