Scum

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Scum is a 1979 British prison drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell. The film portrays the brutality of life inside a British borstal. The script was originally filmed as a television play for the BBC's Play for Today series in 1977. However, owing to the violence depicted, it was withdrawn from broadcast. Two years later, director Alan Clarke and scriptwriter Roy Minton remade it as a theatrical film. Channel 4 first broadcast the film in 1983. By this time, the borstal system had been reformed. The original television version was first broadcast on 27 July 1991, fourteen years after it was made. The film tells the story of a young offender named Carlin as he arrives at the institution and his rise through violence and self-protection to the top of the inmates' pecking order, purely as a tool to survive. Beyond Carlin's individual storyline, the film also serves as an indictment of the borstal system's flaws, with no attempt at rehabilitation. The warders and convicts alike are brutalised by the system. The film's controversy arose over its graphic depiction of racism, extreme violence, rape, suicide, many fights and very strong language.

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Detalhes

Tipo

Filme

Lançamento

1 de janeiro de 1979

Gêneros

teen film, drama film, crime film, prison film

Criado por

Alan John Clarke

Duração

98 min

Países

United Kingdom