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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller /
War /
Music
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Director:
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Peter Watkins
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Actors:
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Patrick Boland,
Kent Foreman,
Luke Johnson,
Katherine Quittner,
Scott Turner,
Stan Armsted,
Mark Keats,
Gladys Golden,
Carmen Argenziano
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Duration:
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88 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)115.5
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Plot Summary:
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"Correction Reserve" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's scoop coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-the administration types across the desert in a order of collar the flag competition. The soldiers solemn word of honour not to intrude with the rebels' progress and barely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they pleasure be released. The covering team's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-good breedin... g get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers appropriate for increasingly bellicose, attempting to arm-twisting the hippies evasion of their pacifist behavior. A oceans of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers earmarks of to flare as some of the "acting" got overaggressive. This is a exciting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be adept to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the fa‡ade. Unfortunately this film has gone entirely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating corroborate of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the in conflict peacefully.
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Punishment Park
Peter Watkins was under no circumstances a commercial filmmaker, his substantial was too edgy, too politicised. It didn't escape that a specific of his greatest achievements, 1965's atomic devastation docudrama The Encounter Bold, was banned from broadcast by the body that commissioned it, the BBC. But Watkins' work is eminent, notably concerning its innovative blending of fiction and documentary event. Watkins' followed The Do battle Game with two more overtly (science) fictional films, but with Punishment Park, he was back in the thick of the inspired, the federal and the argumentative. Though the film feels dated, Punishment Park remains significant in the beforehand 21st century, not least for its prescience in powerful governments bypassing ethics in thei...
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