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I'm afraid to admit it but...
I've never heard of Brubaker and the true story behind it. It was on AMC (American Movie Classics) earlier today and I found myself watching it. I really enjoyed it and was saddened to hear that Brubaker was fired because he stood up for something that everyone else was afraid to, or didn't want to admit the corrupt system in that southern prison. The conditions I saw reminds me of the prisons in the dark ages and how 'disgusting' the living conditions were. It blew me away that those men had to live in terrible conditions at this day in age. I almost don't want to think about prisons that are in that very condition (probably worse) throughout the world. I applaud Mr. Brubaker for having the guts to stand up for a group of men where no one else would.

This is an excellent movie to watch. I also reccomend it because history is meant to "learn from".

One of the last gasps of ultra-liberal socialist hollywood
By the time this film was made, liberalism was running on empty
and running up against truth in the form of Ronald Reagan. After
selling America on the virtues of drugs, being a prostitute or
being a bum. After selling America that religion was evil, that
the government was evil and that our own institutions were the
enemy, this was the end of the line. The last message the
liberals had for was this: Empty the prisons and let the
criminals go free. Thankfully for the survival of America,
the people stepped back from the pit at that point and the evil
hold liberals had on the country was done.

The film starts with Robert Redford, the new warden, pretending
to be a convict so he can understand the system from the inside.
He finds out that prison isn't a very nice place. But as a
liberal, he decides thats the fault of everyone but the
people in jail for crimes.

After he reveals himself as warden, he declares war on the
entire prison system. Everyone who works for him (guards,
trustees, etc) is the enemy. He then proceeds to start to turn
the prison over to the good government of the prisoners
themselves. The prison becomes an anarchist commune.

But just as the prison is turning into a worker's socialist
paradise, the evil guards and their political friends fight
back. So in a despirate gamble to save himself, the warden
sends the inmates out to dig up a graveyard. The film the
goes over the top straying from any portion of the real story
it was loosely based on and the man who told the warden about
the graveyard is murdered.

Redford then totally loses it and we get a big baby-boomer
blow-up about how the system is oppressing him and how working
within the system can't really change anything. I really half
expected to see him return to the prison at that point and
marry one of the inmates. Or to organize a mass uprising
against the guards. But he just lets off steam against his
liberal friends who have traded their revolutionary ideals
for power within the system.

This film is better as a showcase of what went wrong when
the liberals took power in the 1970's and went on the rampage.
Those liberals who were strictly in it for money or power turned
on the true revolutionaries (like Redford) as quick as they
could. The true revoltionaries who wanted to wave the red
flag over the entire government could not run a coffee shop
let along big institutions like prisons. They alienated
the people who did the work to a point where they had to leave.
The revolution from above failed and they were driven off into
whatever gutters in the big cities would have them.






Brubaker - A super movie
I've seen this movie at least 5 times and every time I seem to enjoy it more and more. Robert Redford is superb as warden Brubaker, a new warden sent in undercover to see all the corruption that has been going on at Wakefield Prison. Yaphet Kotto does a great acting job in this as well, and a very young David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman fame)has a bit part. I certainly recommend this movie. I can't wait until it arrives on the DVD format

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