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After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to grounded social dramas about flawed people trapped between personal change and an unforgiving system.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, melancholic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- recidivism, institutional control, failed rehabilitation, alienation, survival
- Setting
- late twentieth century, working-class urban neighborhoods and institutional spaces
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