Prison films

After watching the film, Solitary Nation, so many thoughts and questions were running on the back of my mind. I personally thought that being locked up in a room for twenty-three hours a day for months is physically and mentally unhealthy for any human being. Each inmate that was held in the solitary confinement showed a sign of being mental ill after been there for a couple of weeks. A particular inmate that I closely observed was Adam, the inmate who thought that he was going to successfully…

Monster is the tale around a 16 year old dark kid named Steve Harmon from Harlem. Steve is on trial for a being a conceivable accessory to a murder. The book starts with him in prison sitting tight for his trial to begin. The story is composed in screenplay organize, because of Steve's energy for filmmaking, alongside Steve's diary composing which he does even in the court. Steve composes along these lines to keep his rational soundness while being in jail amid the trial. Most of the story…

was endured during his visitation to Burma prison. He was sharing his experience by choosing the appropriate tone and expressive mood without real details. Orwell uses a good amount of details to show how capital punishment is wrong. For example Orwell states, “We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages” (Orwell, 1931). He describes how cells for prisoners looked when he entered the prison. This essay has many arguable points…

In the film of Bong Joon-ho, a woman lives alone with her son Do-joon, aged about twenty years, she works full time. When one is arrested by police and accused of murdering a schoolgirl, she devotes all her strength to do so innocent. It turns out that the night of the murder, Do-joon has actually followed the victim to the crime scene. Despite the exhortations of his mother, he is unable to recall the events. The efforts he provides in his memory to recall this information will cause the memory…

society wanted them not the use their brains but their muscles. Native Americans were seen as someone who follows white men and white men are their teachers and saviours. Even if the movie is about freedom, it shows us that even if you escape from your prison society always categorise you as bad women, black, native and…

Walter Dean Myers’ Monster: Does Prison Make Steve a Monster? Creep. Psycho. Thug. Monster. The moment a mugshot appears on the six o’clock news, viewers make assumptions about the person in the photo. In a court system based on the premise that all men are innocent until proven guilty, people are quick to assume the worst about each defendant before the trial begins. In Walter Dean Myers’ novel Monster, Steve Harmon is on trial for his alleged role in a robbery that ultimately led to the…

Assault, stronger inmates usually prey upon the smaller, weaker inmates. In the film Bad Boys, the directors portray this theme using the characters of Tweety and Viking. The directors cast these two characters as the “Alpha Males” of the juvenile correction facility. Tweety and Viking assign jobs to other inmates, benefit from cigarette sales, and strike fear into all of the other inmates. At one point, viewers of the film witness Tweety walk into the cell of a younger, smaller boy. At this…

be considered as an adult. In June 25, 2012; the Supreme Court has made a ruling that juveniles who commit murder cannot be given life in prison. Four justices strongly disagree with this ruling, saying how juveniles should always be punished for their crimes from how heinous they are. In my opinion, I believe that juveniles should not receive life in prison under certain circumstances. A family’s background, the brain works, and why these juveniles don’t deserve a life sentence without parole.…

David and Matthew both come from different backgrounds but, they are similar in that they are both men on death row. David is a wealthy professor and Matthew is a hateful hic. Despite their differences, they were both subjected to death row. These films represent how there are larger amounts of men on death row. The two characters show how men are more likely to be forced to undergo death row than women…

Should youth who committed serious crimes be jailed like adult criminals? We acknowledged the fact that Singaporeans age below eighteen are ineligible to vote, drive, own properties, smoke and consume alcohol. Furthermore, our local film rating classify M18 as “Mature” 18. Singapore has imposed the law that the minimum age for death penalty is eighteen years. The Government and experts had already considered that a person under the age of eighteen is still immature, dependent and requires adult…