A Prophet

A Prophet

A Prophet is an excellent French movie about gangsters and life in prison. Kid gets sent to jail for six years for some kind of altercation with the police, and he gets an education. Being a smart kid, he learns, keeps quiet, and slowly builds an empire. Being in prison doesn't seem to be any obstacle to doing business. Well, there is an added expense in that you have to bribe the guards, but on the other hand you save money on rent. Much like American prisons, the gangs are in charge, and if you want to stay alive you align yourself with one group or another. Kind of makes me wonder if prisons do any good at all. Sure, there is the occasional mad dog who should be locked up, and people who prey on others. But most of the people in prison, or so I am led to believe, are in there because they are involved in drug trafficking, or the violence that goes along with running an illegal business. After all, you can't go to the police when someone rips off your stash.

It's got some dream sequences that look much more like I expect dream sequences to look like. The guys who did Inception should have watched this. They might have learned something, but then it would have made their movie much more difficult to put together.

Update February 2017 replaced missing picture.

Update April 2021 replaced dead link.