An escape drama based on an actual prison break is liable to incarcerate viewers.
Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in a bleak tract of upstate New York, has a cold, caged, clanging hopelessness that seeps into the skin of inmates and staff alike. “Out in nature there are no right angles, but in here it’s all right angles,” muses prisoner Richard Matt. “Bars up, bars down, bars across.”
The place is not, so far into Soho’s Escape at Dannemora, any more cruel or violent than you’d expect. In fact, we see chief protagonists David Sweat (Paul Dano) and Matt doing serious time for crimes as yet undisclosed, painting, reading and listening to music. When corrections officer Gene Palmer (David Morse) suddenly headbutts Sweat and smashes his head on a toilet, it’s shocking but really just for form. Palmer mostly colludes with his favourites. In the case of Matt, it is to get the pretty pictures he paints to take home to his wife. Everyone knows the score.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 8 - 14 2018 من New Zealand Listener.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 8 - 14 2018 من New Zealand Listener.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
Morning songs
On a recent early and glorious Saturday morning - it was 4°C outside I let the complaining chickens out. Chickens never stop complaining.
Upwardly mobile
Climate-friendly e-scooters are proliferating but there are stumbling blocks for users and non-users.
A potent brew
There's a correlation between moderate coffee drinking and reduced risk of colorectal cancer - but evidence of a causal link is still percolating.
Food saviours
A little bit of silliness lightens the mood on the serious topic of food waste.
Ode to old masters
The Polynesian sound and Auckland's ska-punk scene are remembered in new releases.
Weaving Welsh with waiata
Te reo meets Cymraeg in a musical project partly spearheaded by Kawiti Waetford, an opera singer with connections to Wales.
Culture warrior
Activist and scholar Ngahuia te Awek6otuku achieved several firsts in society but had to fight many battles to get there.
An age-old problem
Is our lifespan fixed, or might we be able to slow down or even abolish ageing? And what would we do if we could?
When Jim becomes James
'What would white people do to a slave who had learned to read?' This impressive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn seeks to find out.
Manhattan transfer
A Kiwi movie star led the charge for an Anzac garden atop New York's Rockefeller Centre that's still in use today.
