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- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
Summary To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his fa...
Directed By: Alexandre Moratto
Written By: Thayná Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 33 m
7 Prisoners
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7.1
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Summary To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his fa...
Directed By: Alexandre Moratto
Written By: Thayná Mantesso, Alexandre Moratto
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
80
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Moratto’s concise firecracker of a movie is straightforward in its soul-crushing blows and an essential piece of social-realist cinema for our times.
7 Prisoners is an angry film, but Moratto, crucially, reserves his most intense judgment for an inhumane system, not the characters who are trapped by it, each in different ways.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
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80% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
7.1
80% Positive
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16% Mixed
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Es una película brasileña muy impactante y deprimente. Dato curioso: esta película tiene 4 doblajes en español (latino, mexicano, argentino y español de España).
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The film touches on a seemingly unthinkable thing in the modern world, like slavery, but what could be more profitable for the owner of the means of production than free labor. The events in the film take place in the lowest, poor, disenfranchised, uneducated strata of the population, but since the basis in labor relations under capitalism is built on the exploitation of the worker and the alienation of labor results, the situation can be transferred to any working collective engaged in real work, i.e. creating surplus value. So office workers are constantly faced with a situation of overtime, a tight schedule, an extremely scheduled plan, where creativity and quality have already been sacrificed, and the goal is also to maximize profits. Everyone suffers from the system, the contradiction of the interests of the owner of the means of production and the workers leads to an imminent crisis, or even the collapse of the system itself for the better, or what is more likely with spontaneity, disorganization of workers for the worse. The film does not leave anyone indifferent, it shows the motivation of people well, where everyone can be understood, but is it possible to forgive?
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The tightly wound human drama increases to a boiling point that simmers all the way to the credits.
The rather on-the-nose storytelling grows increasingly complex and interesting the further that the protagonist ventures into morally ambiguous territory.
This impressive feature from Alexandre Moratto takes the topic of modern-day enslavement as a jumping-off point for a morality tale which gets increasingly knotty and satisfying as it goes on.
7 Prisoners gets us caught up in its moral quandary and the hard mathematics of survival, and is just long enough, with enough forks in the road Mateus faces, to put us in his shoes.
If the pay-off aims for the gut and misses, the journey to that point provides a searing microcosm of a corrupt and degrading system.
In fact, none of us are free. Only some of us are more prisoner. So is this a requirement?
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7 Prisoners isn't a film that offers enough variation to be perceived as a more proactive film, but its story of modern slavery is a stark account and reminder **** and painful reality that millions of people face with the promise of a better life. The fragility of the soul and your will are among the main themes of this film, and how it ends up affecting one of its main characters, in a passage that shows the rottenness of his captors and the corruption that allows this situation to thrive so openly until it closes with the inevitable blow of countless lives ruined. This is not a subtle film, nor does it need to be, and even with its drawbacks and flaws, it's considerably tragic and pertinent.
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Good and fast paced movie. Rodrigo Santoro is one of the best actors ever, better than a bunch of Hollywood big names. It's not very believable that police officers of São Paulo Military Police would be so ostensibly involved in such activities but it's still a good, raw and touching movie.
Note: brazilian movies should be watched with original audio.
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I don't know. This is not a terrible film, but I think it's not that far from being misery porn.
I liked it better 'The White Tiger' —Ramin Bahrani, the director of that one, produced '7 Prisoners.' Both were taken by Netflix, but the approach is very different. While 'The White Tiger' tackles corruption and social hierarchy through satire, '7 Prisoners' takes itself very seriously.
'The White Tiger' is not perfect, but its tone is highly engaging. The drama around '7 Prisoners' is mortifying and somber, but sometimes is solely based on the suffering of the victims, and not that much on the protagonist's struggle, whose moral dilemma is not fully explored.
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Production Company
Noruz Films (I),
O2 Filmes
Release Date Nov 5, 2021
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Tagline Survival is Power.
Awards
Prêmio Guarani
• 10 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
