When the mask is off, it's totally, horrifically gutwrenching, & the meaning of sociopath was never so clear.
In her own pain, Kit has joined a gang of racist Latinas & sets out to murder Brownie, the mother figure she so greatly loved but who turned her out.īrownie turns out to be less than half what she had seemed to be. There does have to be a filmic climax, however, & it betgins to look like Treasure will be convinced to take down Kit in a permanent manner. The characrters are gritty & real & rarely over-the-top like women-in-prison movies usually are. There are some very gung-ho lesbian sex scenes but otherwise this film is not at all exploitative. We want to believe the best of even this terrible woman. There's enough likeability in Brownie, Treasure, everyone, that the probability of Brownie's true self betraying her daughter is just worrisome & tension-causing. Her sadness at Brownie's increasing cruelty is painful to see.īrownie is an expansively bad influence on Treasure. Kit (Rain Phoenix) is a Latina who loves Brownie as if she were her real mother, & is distraught to be pushed aside by Brownie's new favoritism toward Treasure. She uses her actual daughter no differently than any other girl under her sway, keeping herself clean of provable crimes. But there is nothing sentimental here, & Brownie uses her considerable powers of motherliness to get young women to deal drugs for her. Shadow would really like to get her life straightened out, but with friends like these, it won't be a cinch.Īs the tale progresses, Treasure's attempt to forge a family in a dehumanizing environment is moving & sometimes beautiful. Shadow (LaTanya Hagans), Treasure's homegirl from juvie, has lately "graduated" to the adult facility. For a long while Treasure could only glimpse Brownie in the yard, so knows she's a big scary bulldagger. Treasure's unexplained interest in Brownie meets with consternation among other inmates, as no one can imagine why anyone would want intentionally to mess with her. Her mother is Brownie (Davenia McFadden), who is housed in Unit A for the hard core, so not easy to get to meet her. While incarcerated she commited an act of violence so as to be transferred to an adult facility, where she hopes to get to know her biological mom, a lifer she has never met. Treasure Lee (Yolanda Ross) had been in juvie a long time. Which means it can be enjoyed by viewers who're interested primarily in mindless thrills, but will be a lot more interesting to viewers tuned into the truths & emotions imbedded in the piece. Stranger Inside (2001) is as close to faultless as they come, an authentic work of art, though one without pretentions & thereby easily misunderstood as violent & sexploitatative rather than frank & honest. Very few films, even good ones, are perfect.
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