This Bone-Crushing Prison Drama Drags You Into a Harsh, Visceral World — and You Probably Missed It
A Prayer Before Dawn, which stars Joe Cole, is a brutal, unflinching true story of survival in Thailand’s most notorious prison.
Prisons have been used as the setting in films for almost as long as cinema has existed. With its roots going back to the silent film Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison, which was released in 1901, prisons have played vital roles in countless of the most iconic films in history. Shawshank Redemptionand The Green Mile are two of the best examples of films that took their respective settings behind bars and transformed them into characters of their own. Unsurprisingly, the crime genre utilizes the setting more than any other.
