- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1971
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Science-Fiction
- Director:
- Best Performance:
- Premiss:
- A charismatic delinquent is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Political Correctness
- Totalitarianism
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- Cinema
Crime-Prevention Banana
Unsettling vision of the present-day in the form of a social comedy about political expediency.
The movie critiques a cynical, crime-creating culture that uses criminals as scapegoats for its ills and then exacerbates its own creation by conflating moral goodness with obedience; leading to the inevitable calls for totalitarian solutions to the self-created problems. Crime cannot be reduced, so politicians work with criminals to gull the electorate into believing the best approach to crime is curative rather than preventive.
Told from the first person point-of-view of a violent rapist, we are invited to laugh at the goings on; reducing this film’s audience to those who understand the underlying themes – and violent rapists, themselves.
The acting is superb from all concerned with Michael BATES as an ex-forces prison officer a genuine tour-de-force.
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