A really unpleasant film. A college-age woman is (wrongfully?) accused of murder, thrown into prison and we get to watch her systematic degradation, humiliation and de-humanization in living color. Oh, and she was pregnant so we get a birth scene too.
This could stand as a refutation of all those women-in-cages sexploitation films from the 60's, 70's. All the prisoners except the lead were unattractive...in fact, real prisoners in the minimum-security prison where this was shot...which made a fight in the shower scene more grotesque than titillating.
What was the point here? It wasn't an expose because the women were mostly treated with consideration by the prison staff. The justice system was presented with a murder, two possible suspects who pointed the finger at each other.
I found this an ordeal to watch with no real saving grace.
4
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