Technicolor version, recorded on Turner Classic Movies last Halloween.
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Scum 1979
The most trenchant ironies in this critique of English youth-detention centers (and, implicitly, the society that allows them) arise from small details that show those in power reinforcing their self-image of tolerance and moral correctness while enabling and enforcing a code of brutal, arbitrary punishment having nothing to do with rehabilitation.
1. An inspector comes by to perfunctorily examine the food served to the Trainees, yet any concern for their physical well-being evaporates once the beatings resume.
2. The Governer…
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