Shot caller 2017
By
Ric roman Waugh
This is the story of a prison inmate played by
Nikolaj coster-waldau,who enlists in a
gang to survive his sentence.Once a guy
gets institutionalised,anything is possible.It doesn’t end at the gates,a
prisoner truly becomes free only when he is dead.This is how it works.
This hard-hitting drama studies how prisons are actually run,and why
do even naive inmates who want to go back to their families , end up getting transmogrified
into savages during incarceration.These
are no reform institutions ,rather the breeding grounds and laboratories for
creating hardened criminals.
Nikolaj goes in for causing an accident in which his
friend dies,once inside hobnobs with incarcerated gangsters ,manages to get his
sentence extended,and even when he gets out,is duty bound (or rather
blackmailed)to perform some criminal
acts outside the prison to help his gangmates.He turns his wife and child away
and sets about his business in calm
and calculated fashion.The climax is
brilliantly conceived.
Nikolaj has given a power-packed performance.He is
solid,intense and grim .He admirably balances his pain with his innate animal
instincts.Survival is must,but shud be on his own terms.One doesn’t get to choose the
questions life asks of you,but how you answer them is what shows your character.
This film reminds me of Un Prophete (2010).This is
an overexploited genre,but the film works because Nikolaj and the director Ric
Roman Waugh have given their sincere best.
(The man can tame Cersei,and survived a dragon scare
in season 7,of course he wud survive mere criminals in a prison !)
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