Freedom, That's What We Dying For - review on Prison Break
Freedom, That's What We Are Dying For
-- a review on Prison Break from Pan
Watching movies might be seen not much more than a waste of time for many aspiring people, but not if they are in English and if you are an avid learner of this language. Holding the view that watching English-speaking movies will help with my English study, I never find it guilty sitting at my computer watching Hollywood movies for solid hours at a time. And it sure works!
There is a problem, though. The more movies I watch, the more particular on them I grow. Having The Shawshank Redemption in my best favorite collections, I
rarely believed there would be any "prison break movies" of the same level coming. Even after I watched the first season of the TV drama Prison Break, which rose in popularity like mad in Chinese mainland -- thanks to this mighty Internet
-- I couldn't get in the mood to write a review on it, let alone a recommendation.
Though hardly the same engrossing as 24, Prison Break is not bad as something
to fit in the boredom of waiting for the new 24 season to finish. But it's still not until I had watched 17 episodes of its second season, which is still on broadcast, did I feel the urge to recommend it to you all.
Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), a white-collar structural engineer, commits a bank robbery and manages to be sent to a prison named Fox River, where his
brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) is to be executed in a month for allegedly having murdered the brother of the vice President of United States. Believing that
his brother is framed and is innocent, Scofield spends a month elaborating a detailed and ingenious escape plan before he gets to the bank with a gun. The young man gets in the same prison in order to break his brother out. It sounds crazy but it seems some glimmer of hope: Scofield happens to be involved in designing the prison and has access to the entire blueprits of the buildings inside, and has them all tattooed on his top body.
The plan, though seems meticulous, doesn't go without a hitch, though. With things continuously getting out of control, the two brothers end up dramatically
organizing a prison-breaking team of 8 men, with each having a story behind. And a couple of the prison employees get deeply involved: The warden, whose trust
is soon won over by the hero; the sinister prison guard, whose unpleasant face
makes its way to season 2 as well; and the loving doctor Sara, who can't help feeling the romance in season 1 and makes it clear in season 2.
Of course the warden and guards aren't the only barrier against the brothers',
or rather, the team's, escaping plans. The deeper they dig, the more they reveal, and the more danger they bring to themselves. Behind all the lies, murders
and struggles there is actually some governmental conspiracy. So what's behind?
The amazing fact of this hit TV drama is it really takes its Chinese audience
by storm, though not necessarily critically acclaimed in its homeland. I find its second season, with the story taking place outside of the prison, to be more
absorbing. With more twists and turns, and the uplifting music, the season indeed makes a compelling watching. May the rest parts come sooner!
Panpanpan.
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