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The Monthly, April 2009, No. 44In This Issue
The Nation Reviewed
Comment • Satyajit Das
The Third Wave • Tim Flannery Time Loop • Mungo MacCallum Born Again • Leigh Sales The Monthly Essays
Life in a Bangkok Prison
Life in a Bangkok Prison
Damien Wright & His Table
Arts & Letters
Seers • Bill Bowtell The Good Soldier • Inga Clendinnen Thoughts in the Middle of a Career • Robert Forster Snow Falling on Vampires • Luke Davies Beachmaster • Clive James "The Striped World" by Emma Jones • Alexandra Coghlan "Things We Didn’t See Coming" by Steven Amsterdam • Emmett Stinson Encounters
Paul Keating & Jack Lang • Shane Maloney
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In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is about to embark on a six-year prison sentence for assaulting a cop. Polite and deferential, Malik is hard to read at first. The little we glean about his life is framed in terms of negatives: he has no contacts, no relatives; he didn’t grow up with his parents, but in juvenile centres. If he’s experiencing fear as he enters the chaos of the prison at Brécourt, he doesn’t show it. He’... Random reading
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