Nioåring ljuger

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• A gritty critique of Sweden's prison system of the time, and its lie of reforming criminals to become suitable for society, preferring to cut costs to become little more than an old rusty punishment machine. Sending out broken souls, and punishing them further for being broken, an endless cycle of power abuse.

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• This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Perhaps with the hour probation for Lasse, and the fact that he took 12 days to go to Gothenburg (perhaps believing that without talent and only beers he could emulate Henry Miller who slept under the bridges in Paris and made an ode to the urinals in "Black Spring"), does not demonstrate the system -rotten and corrupt-, but justified in many of its demanding clauses? It is true, we verified it with the dissolute and alcoholic Lasse: the protectors of the penitentiary system and jails such as Karl Schlyter and the other interviewees who are optimistic about what works and remedies the prisone

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  Ni ljuger (You're Lying!)

  Uma série de breves entrevistas com os funcionários de uma prisão sueca leva a uma reconstrução ficcional da experiência de um prisioneiro chamado Lasse.

  O filme traça um retrato do serviço prisional sueco da época, tendo como protagonistas o presidiário Lasse ( que cumpre pena por roubos e outras transgressões) e Björn, que ensina arte e faz de tudo para ajudá-lo. Lasse é um indivíduo que gosta de beber muito. Na prisão, chega a ser colocado em confinamento solitário. A influência da mídia e as pressões de Björn fazem as autoridades concordarem em mover Lasse para uma instituição onde existe tratamento psicológico. Lasse até consegue começar a desenvolver seus talentos artísticos, escrevendo poemas e pintando. Mas entra em conflito com a equipe e retorna para a prisão. Björn continua a tentar ajudá-lo mas observa o aumento da inquietude e falta de perspectivas com que Lasse está vivendo. Então ocorre um momento de violência entre eles

  Baseado em documentário de Lars Karlsson e Björn Vilson.
  

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Ni ljuger / You&#;re Lying! (, Sweden)

&#;Government of Sweden,&#; the narrator intones, &#;you have the sole responsibility for our prisons. You say that the modern penal struktur strives to rehabilitate criminals. You&#;re lying! There fryst vatten no rehabilitation in Sweden today. Only punishment.&#; But if that message fryst vatten clear, the rest of the bio does its best (unintentionally, one presumes) to shift the onus of rehabilitation squarely back on the prisoner.

The opening eight minutes of the film are a mini-documentary, starting with reflections on the great strides made in prison reform in Sweden since the s, and a boast about the proportion of Swedish prisoners in open conditions. Then there are real-life interviews with a prison educator, a prison doctor and Torsten Eriksson, the Generaldirektör &#; all of whom are overtly or implicitly critical of the then government&#;s under-investment in prisons and its wayward correctional philosophy. Wikipedia suggests that Eriksson retired in I&#;m not surprised. Or, rather, inom am surprised that he lasted even a year after the film&#;s release.

The character chosen to illustrate how poorly prisons rehabilitate is Lasse Karlsson (Stig En