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  "description": "A gruesome character study focused on Jacob (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who has an idyllic life before fucking up royally (RIP Schmidt ) and forcefully pushing away his family in an effort to get them to move on and — ultimately — protect them. The American prison system isn't designed or built to reform anyone. It's designed to break and trap people. Jacob quickly learns that being housed with violent inmates means you're either a victim or a victimizer. He becomes the latter, climbing the rungs in a white supremacist gang that controls (to a degree) the prison that houses him. Decent guy breaks bad under pressure. Not an uncommon narrative and yet a deeply engaging one here because of how it's presented. You get a narrative that stitches Jacob's past with his present, his crime with the consequences that follow and the hole he digs for himself while he fights to survive. It's brutal, it's violent and there's action (if you're looking for that) — and I loved the cast. I could expound on how much I love Jon Bernthal but I'll spare you. He's awesome here. He's always awesome. I did not expect to buy Jeffrey Donovan in this role as soon as I saw him. He nailed it. Far better than I expected it to be. : I know I've seen him before and dammit I can't place him. : Privatizing prisons means introducing entities that are duty-bound to turn a profit, which means keeping prison beds filled and occupancy high. That's more compatible with encouraging recidivism than reform.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/shot-caller-2017",
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-15T14:35:00Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "thriller",
    "crime",
    "drama"
  ],
  "title": "Shot Caller"
}