Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971) Masters of Cinema

Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
Peter Watkins

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A key film in the unimpeachable cry-in-the-wilderness corpus of Peter WatkinsΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥a major filmography long marginalized and only now being prepped and released on any form of videoΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥ Punishment Park (1971) is an act of howling political righteousness, a dystopian critique intended for the peace-movement years but possibly even more relevant today. The premise is so simple it leaves singe marks: Watkins begins with the very real McCarran Act (just as he had based The War Game on Britain's own nuclear-warfare cost analysis and contingency plans), which grants Ashcroftian summary-judgment powers to the president in times of potential "insurrection." The Nixon-'Nam years were those times, and so the film follows two groups of arrested protesters as they're led to the Western desert, interrogated by a tribunal and then sent running, with national guardsmen and riot police following on the hunt.

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