Movie of the Week: Brubaker

IMDB: 7.1/10

Letterboxd: 3.5/5

My Rating: 4/5

“You can’t reform the system if you’re not in it.” -Lillian Grey(Jane Alexander)

After months of insistence I received from my father to watch Brubaker, I finally had time to watch Brubaker. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg and nominated for Best Screenplay,writing, Oscar award, Brubaker is not the kind of a movie that I could say “unique” or “masterpiece” about it. However, Brubaker is really good at telling you the story about benign and idealist people who tried to make the right things and were eventually oppressed or removed by powerful people who wanted to protect the status quo.

The movie is based on a real incident called Arkansas Prison Scandal(Tom O. Murton ) and starting with one prisoner transport vehicle heading through to a prison, namely Wakefield State Prison. We see Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker who was one of the prisoners heading through the prison in the bus. The prison is full of corruption and everything is based on bribes in Wakefield. Even though our main character Henry Brubaker is pretty quite and not seems like a important character in the first 30 minutes of the movie, we’ll see how Henry Brubaker will scramble against the corruption in Wakefield Prison.

To be honest, it was a pretty decent movie for me and I can’t say what I particularly liked about the movie, however, it was great to see just a simple warden is trying to reduce the corruption in his prison and dealing with corrupted politicians who opposed to him. As I mentioned before, it wasn’t a indispensable movie for me, however, I wanted to watch it for a long time so I am glad that I finally watched it.