Caged Heat (1974)

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   benhere

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTedhTrzeNk 2 years 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   In his first directorial effort, Caged Heat, Jonathan Demme makes the case that women's prison exploitation movies should work the same way blaxploitation does, i.e. have its characters endure (in this case) misogyny, and get badass revenge on behalf of their peeps by the end. The prison in this case has a repressed (female) warden who thinks of the inmates as sluts - the implication is that they are in jail for being sex positive - and a doctor who likes to drug, undress and then lobotomize the girls under his care. Every other man is a perv. Problematically, the audience is complicit by virtue (is "by vice" an expression?) of its voyeurism, because Demme couldn't avoid the high nudity quota these movies require. But the satire still works, even if the acting and production values are lacking. Demme seems to be using the flick as an audition tape, enlivening the action with camera tricks, dream sequences, and odd music (the score sounds like mostly jaw harp). It doesn't all work, but it's raw and dynamic and kind of fun in a trashy way. 4 years 5 months ago
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   MMDan

   I guess they don't have bras in jail. 8 years 1 month ago

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