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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Brilliant! 2 "Woman-in-prison exploitation" films with fascinating art house treatments! Loved the Bava-like colorful style of capturing scenes with surreal sensibilities and undeniably the social & political overtone. In his first film Director Shunya Ito I think to some extent critically tried to explore a darker side or meaning of a national symbol (Flag) in multiple shots which is all about his artistic approach in protesting the corrupted systems; and that continues even in a greater scale in the 2nd film where there's a wonderful little scene just at the beginning of a prison revolt...prisoners thrown their sandals up in the air and just for a moment there we see the hats of the prison guards instead of the prisoner's sandals...! Now that's an ironic touch from a class film maker. A truly visionary, one of a kind experience. Hate to wait for the next 2 installments of the series; hopefully going to watch them very soon.
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