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Brokedown Palace
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Brokedown Palace
Discusses plot, theme, ethical dilemmas, filmmakers message of 1999 film.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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2001
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"Brokedown Palace (1999) is a film with echoes of a number of other films, notably Midnight Express (1978), any number of women-in-prison films, and even Return to Paradise from 1998. The story is first told in flashback form as an American lawyer in Thailand, Yankee Hank, receives an audio tape in the mail and hears the story of two American girls, Alice and Darlene, recent high school graduates who came to Thailand for a vacation and who are now in prison, sentenced to 33 years for trying to smuggle drugs. They are innocent, having been duped by an Australian named Nick Parks.Hank learns that Alice and Darlene have been best friends since childhood and decided to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate high school graduation. They are a bit foolish and presume that they are immune from most troubles because they are.."
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