Punishment Park (1 Viewer)

[nlgbbbblth]

Heard bits and pieces about this over the years, mostly good.
Anyone know it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067633/

"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scene real tempers seem to flare as some of the "acting" got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinema-veritie style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be able to maintain their roles given the hazing they were taking - pushed some to the brink. The cast's emotions are clearly on the surface. Unfortunately this film has gone completely underground and is next to impossible to find. It would offer a captivating document of the distrust that existed between soldiers willfully serving in the military and those persons who opposed the war peacefully.

 

[david]

Amazing film. Check out 'Culloden' too,might be even better.

 

[Dixer]

Heard bits and pieces about this over the years, mostly good.
Anyone know it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067633/

Its fuckin' amazing. Eureka put out a sweet edition last year sometime I think. Actually I say its amazing but I've got a soft spot for Watkins. Culloden and The War Game, fuckin amazing, probably better than PP. You should read up on him if you haven't before, his media statements etc.
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/
Under rated filmmaker.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

cool.
yep, have seen Culloden and The War Game and love them both.

 

[oh shit]

this is a great film

 

[Ferox13]

Good film but I loved THe War Game.

Does any one have The Gladiators or Privliege (i'd love to see those).
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[Lili Marlene]

there's an unbelievably rare adam ant song called 'punishment park'.
Never heard it though

 

[ernesto]

there's an unbelievably rare adam ant song called 'punishment park'.
Never heard it though

how sure are you about that song?
are you adamant?!

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh wait, I have it.

It's shit. and it's not 'unbelieveably' rare as it's free to download

 

[ernesto]

oh wait, I have it.

It's shit. and it's not 'unbelieveably' rare as it's free to download

awe, dont ignore my joke

 

[Lili Marlene]

it barely made sense. I thought it was just a typo. Have some rep to compensate for my dumbness

 

[Scientician 0.8]

The War Game, the nuke one???? that was fantastic. You can look at it on youtube. just search The War Game. It's scary. Threads is up there too.
I have Culloden on video too. It's really peculiar but really interesting.

 

[Ferox13]

The War Game, the nuke one???? that was fantastic. You can look at it on youtube. just search The War Game. It's scary. T

That's the one - yeah very grim..If you like it you'll also like It Happened here.

 

[Nate Champion]

Ha! I thought this was awful! One of the worst films I've ever seen!

Pseudo-documentary - it's seems like it would have been dated in the '60s!

*cringes*

 

[ball*istic]

Great, great film. The scenes where the students are being interrogated by the 'bastions of society' can't but fill you with rage. Recent DVD edition has an introduction by the director where he reads an essay on the making of the film. Worth a look.

For another dystopia have a look at 'It Hapened Here' - basically about life in a Nazi-occupied Britain. Famously used actual racists to espouse Nazi philosophy. Class.