If you like hard, unforgivingly bleak prison films then 'Screwed' is right up your street. Featuring a cast of solid british caracter actors that are familiar from among other places Eastenders, Londons Burning, Nil By Mouth etc it comes from the perspective of a prison officer or Screw if you prefer.
D'arcy is first shown as a squaddie getting to see his mates blown to pieces in Afghanistan (or is it Iraq?) Either way he aquires the 1000 yard stare and comes back to Blighty traumatised which is when his girlfriend suggests he becomes a prison warder and we watch as he realises he didn't know what he was letting himself in for as he gets embroiled in a battle within the prison to run the drugs trade.
It is often unclear who is in charge of anything but the battle is violent and brutal as slowly D'arcy realises he can trust no one and he has himself got horribly messed up on the drugs he was trying to stamp out.
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By the end of the movie it seems there is one clear message to be had: never ever, whatever you do, become a prison guard it is to be avoided almost as much as spending time on the wrong side of the bars. The film is of course nasty and violent but there is no sex at any time between any of the inmates and most of the sex the screws are involved in happens at a god-awful looking titty bar that seems like it should be beyond their wage packet anyway.
This film will soon turn up on DVD or late night TV and is well worth a watch. Just don't expect too many laughs.
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