MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Angola: The Farm (1998)

   Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival,
   the film effectively talks about the effects of a life sentences on
   prisoners and really brings out the humanity of the prisoners. But
   it fails to talk about the systemic brutality of prison, nor does
   it address beyond mentioning the history of Angola as being one of
   Amerika's most violent prisons. This effort to focus so much on the
   specifics of Angola and six prisoners who are profiled downplays
   Angola's role in the whole Amerikan injustice system.