I found this movie very disturbing. How can someone be kept in solitary confinement for 3 years? the thought of that is so horrible. Especially if it was based on a true story. Not sure if it was?? Anyway, the movie was brilliant (yes Bacon should have got an oscar damnit!!) but it left me feeling very unsettled and disturbed.
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I do not think the human mind is conditioned to last in those conditions. While in the movie, they try and make it seem like all that time in "the hole" made him insane with rage and murderous thoughts, I'm thinking he would have become more of a vegetable and completely past the point of sanity.
I seriously doubt he was kept in "the hole" for three years straight, but if it did happen, what a horrible thing to do to someone.
This movie is a COMPLETE WORK OF FICTION and has nothing in common with the facts as they apply to the degenerate that it is supposedly "based on". Very little research, even a 2 minute google search will give you more facts than you get from this entire movie.
sharePrisoners on Alcatraz were never kept in solitary that long.
"D" Block was used for permanent solitary, but that didn't mean convicts were locked up dark little holes. "D" Block meant that prisoners were kept in their cells most of the time and weren't allowed to mingle with the other convicts. Meals were eaten in their cells, and they went into the exercise yard on their own.
Now, the hole was something different. That WAS where a convict was thrown into a dark little hole. However, they were used for immediate disciplinary problems. The time there varied, but it was measured out in days; not months or years.
Finally, there were the dungeons. That was a part of the old fortress that the prison was built on. There convicts were chained to wall, naked, during the day. At night, they were unshackled and given a mattress to sleep on. The dungeons were very rarely used. About the only time they were ever used was to lock up the three surviving convicts of the 1946 Alcatraz uprising where two guards were killed in a failed escape attempt.
People, let's just watch it as a movie and not a historical piece of work.
shareHenri Young spent 19 days in solitary, the rest of his time in segregation.
sharei thought it was VERY disturbing when they cut the back of his legs by right above his feet, it the tendons i think so he cant run or walk, i can;t walk that part with out looking away
shareMaybe it was disturbing on a visual level, as part of a work of fiction. But it never happened in real life, his medical records attest to that, as does the fact that he walked out onto the streets a free man, not a dead one. Maybe that's what they're referring to when you hear "dead man walking." ;-)
sharei thought it was VERY disturbing when they cut the back of his legs by right above his feet, it the tendons i think so he cant run or walk, i can;t walk that part with out looking awayYeah, that part really got to me as well. Something really evil about the way GO's character did that to him too. I'm gonna have to do some research now because i don't know anything about the "true story" that this was based on. Great acting from the guys KB and GO anyway. share