"Sleepers"

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This paper discusses the theme in Robert Blatchford's movie, "Sleepers", of humans' lack of free will and the degree to which it justifies personal failing in light of a greater environmental failure.

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"In "Sleepers," four relatively innocent boys go through a hellish experience of sexual and physical abuse in a reform school called "Wilkinson's Home for Boys." The remainder of the movie portrays the men they have become. Two are professional criminals and murders. One is a journalist and the other a slightly crooked District Attorney. The life of crime and murder embraced by two of their number is explicitly blamed on their experiences in the reform school. When they brutally murder one of the former guards from that school, even the neighborhood priest is willing to implicitly condone their action as a logical conclusion of their treatment. Additionally, the main character's failed relationship seems to be blamed on his experiences as well."

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