#Childhood

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2014)

For Foucault, the prison is a creation, that is, in fact, an innovation perfected by reason of punishment since according to him, it was established with the aim of equipping a formation of more affective and usable individuals in society. This same instrument of punishment, which is also an institution of kidnapping, it is contemplated in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption". In the film, one realizes that prison, as Foucault argued, is contradictory. This institution of kidnapping, which is a reflection of modern society, has a higher re-educative than punitive effect. What can be observed when one of the characters gets his freedom after spending 50 years in prison, he, however, was not successful during its process of adaptation to the external mode of life and society, eventually undermining the very life.