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Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to morally conflicted thrillers about criminal reform, coercive experimentation, and the uncertain boundary between punishment and redemption.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- catharsis, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- punishment, rehabilitation, free will, medical ethics, violence
- Setting
- contemporary, death-row prison and clinical research facility