When my Girlfriend picks a movie for us to watch it will land (once investigated) on the not very good list! \u00a0Last Sunday my body melted into the sofa as it often did when I was out every weekend in the folly of my youth! \u00a0We both sat for 7 hours and consumed! \u00a0Terrible food, terrible TV and terrible movies although one did stand out\u00a0 and it shook me to the core. \u00a0She had selected \u201cStarred Up\u201d. \u00a0A brutal unforgiving tale set in a UK prison. \u00a0At first I vocally protested and poured scorn on the title, even the first scenes led me to turn up my nose, but soon enough I was inside that caged-off drug den where the characters lived. \u00a0\u201cStarred Up\u201d is a tale of a young convict who has risen though the penal system only to end up serving time in the same prison as his father. \u00a0It\u2019s a cramped and confined movie never leaving the walls of the compound in which the story takes place. \u00a0The bleak life of an inmate is laid bare, in one scene three men stand in a cell as another seated on a toilet pulls a mobile phone from his anus wrapped in cling film, he then casually passes it over to be used. \u00a0This aggressive alpha male environment where beatings and fights can seemingly flare up in any situation is juxtaposed with the realisation that prison homosexuality is real, and a choice made by long term prisoners. \u00a0I was deeply moved by many situations particularly the ending of this film, and if this graphic portrait of life in UK prisons is accurate I hope I never see the inside of one! \u00a0Or a man pulling a cell phone out of his ass…<\/p>\n
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