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IN YOUTH WE TRUST

Thailand, 2024, 132 minutes, Colour.

Pae Arak Amornsupssiri, Nat Kiotcharit, Todsapol Maisuk.

Directed by Putthipong Naktong.

In medicines have been very popular over many decades, many of the American 30s films focusing on risks, rivalries in prisons, possibilities for rehabilitation, death penalty, chaplains…

Here is a 21^st-century version of these films about prisons, especially young offenders (some likening it to the British film, Alan Clarke’s). Life in prison is brutal, the initial loners, put upon, the gangs, leadership, rivalries, violence – and so many of the staff singing indifferent to the fate of the prisoners.

This film focuses on the young man, hope for an education, his mother selling drugs, arrested and imprisoned, his eventually snapping and killing someone, finding himself in prison. And the expected pattern of treatment by the guards, gangs, bashings, all take place.

In fact, there is quite a variety of prisoners, gang leaders, brutal leaders, a young gay prisoner who relies on the central character for some kind of protection, the film showing prisoners who seem to no sense of morality or remorse, others who have potential but it will not be fulfilled in prisons.

The drama, there are several flashbacks to the central characters line, some black and white, building up to his breaking and his imprisonment.

Not a film great hope for prison regimes, prisoners rights, the continuing of the system.

1. The title, youth in Thailand, from disparate neighbourhoods, drugs, violence and crime, prison? Gangs in prisons? Rehabilitation or not?
2. The setting in the town, family life, the mother selling drugs, her son’s reaction, at school, the other children, his mother’s reputation, the young girl friendly and supporting him? The drama of this kind of life and its influence on the son?
3. Growing up, the boy a young man, not wanting money from his mother, resentment about her reputation, the taunts, the mockery, his killing the man who taunted him?
4. His age, arrest, imprisonment? The violent treatment? Travelling to the prison with the gay prisoner? The arrival, brutal treatment, the inhumanity of the warden?
5. The number of prisoners, the poor conditions, the two spaces in the number in each, sleeping conditions, washing conditions, meals? The yard and exercise?
6. The two groups, the leaders, their characters and personalities, influence, the vast majority followers, accepting any attitudes and behaviour from their leaders?
7. Puek, the violent treatment, assaulted and kicked? The treatment of the gay prisoner, the sexual violence, exploitation, his character, fears, the flashbacks and his memories of earlier treatment? Puek, sympathetic, unable to help? The gangs setting up the gay prisoner to be violent against Puek?
8. The leadership of the unsympathetic gang, Alice attitudes, violence, sexual exploitation?
9. The leadership of the sympathetic gang, the leader and his back story after his father’s visit to the prison, his friend and henchman? Taking on Puek as a friend?
10. The politics of the prison, the guards, treatment of the prisoners, reinforced in the violent way of life?
11. The final violence to the gay prisoner?
12. Puek, his taking a stand, with the leaders of the sympathetic gang?
13. The buildup to the final confrontation, the two sides massing against each other in the yard, the fight, the violence? Puek and his injuries, the fight with the leaders and their deaths? The death of the sympathetic leader?
14. The visits to the prison, the girl grown-up, coming to visit, the news of his mother’s death, her not wanting to visit anymore, his outreach to her and love?
15. The final scenes with the warden, more sympathetic than before? The question of whether this way of life would continue in the prisons? Puek moved to a better prison?
16. The film as an indictment of this kind of treatment of Thailand’s young men, brutality, the need for rehabilitation?