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Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who can handle uncompromising social realism about institutional cruelty, moral corruption, and resistance against abusive authority.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, satirical
- Payoff
- catharsis, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- institutional abuse, power, racism, resistance, survival
- Setting
- late twentieth century, authoritarian youth detention institution