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Punishment Park (1971)
Few months back while I was looking through some IMDB lists then I first get to know about this film & it made me instantly pretty curious to give it a blind watch as early as possible. At that time I just found the title & the premise very interesting. Now, after watching it very late last night without knowing much about the background or the content, Peter Watkins' Punishment Park just straight way made me think & feel I was watching something very real...a genuinely horrifying documentary that was probably banned or hidden all these years or people didn't like to talk about it for its shockingly true & appalling subject matter. Therefore, in this regard, this is surely turned out one of the best Shockumentary I have seen so far. Quote:
"I don't have to call you what you are, you know what you are...better than I do." According to Wikipedia, Mr. Watkins allowed his cast to mostly speak their minds to each other and the cameras, and that creates a fascinating time capsule from a time & gave birth to a tale of a generation when average citizens actually cared passionately about their country and were willing to go to extreme lengths for those beliefs & doesn't care about the consequences. Of course, now, some 40 years on, it might be supposed that the political context of Punishment Park is out of date - but Watkins' film still has its relevance, as the US again & again caught in endless foreign conflicts resulted the untold horrors of US detention compounds in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Looking back on history reminds us of the differences and similarities between then and now, but still Punishment Park shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Punishment Park is an extraordinary film, very much thought provoking and deeply depressing. A must see for everyone. >>: A
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Out of those, the only ones i've seen are Troll Hunter and Life as we know it. I would give Troll Hunter a score of 10. I loved that movie but i agree with you on your rating of the other. Good to know In Time is good, i was interested in that one. What's submarine?
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A beautiful coming-of-age dark comedy. Liked it too.
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