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Review of by Stcenterprise . — 14 May 2011

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It is a long movie about escaping yet there truly is no happy ending. The Shawshank Redemption has a better film. This film just when you think you are getting towards the end of the film there is more.

I did not realize what kind of cruel and unusual punishment that prisoners had to go through even after WWI. Some of the punishments I would even consider torture such as extremely low food given to prisons, prisoners put under isolated from sound for a number of years, lack of light, no shoes, lack of medical care, and hunting cradles.

It's a film not worth seeing a bunch of times. Unfortunately when they do escape it does not last very long and someone always puts them back into prison once more.

This review of Papillon (1973) was written by on 14 May 2011.

Papillon has generally received very positive reviews.

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