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FORTRESS is a movie directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) in 1993.

John Brennick and his wife Karen are arrested while crossing the U.S. frontier. The government allows only one child per family and Karen is pregnant for the second time. They are locked in an underground prison called the Fortress, lost in the middle of the desert.
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All the prisoners are implanted with a chip that causes pain in case of violation of the prison regulations. If a prisoner dares to cross the red lines which mark out in squares the prison, the microchip will explode in his entrails. Furthermore, the main computer named Zed observes the slightest movements or dreams of the prisoners and reports them to the director Poe who decides which punishment to inflict to the culprit.

Brennick, in the company of his cell companions, will nevertheless find a way to take the dangerous chip out of his body and escape. But the way to the exit door is long and filled with danger.


The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler




In a fascist United States, a former soldier and his wife are arrested for having a second baby (illegal due to overpopulation) when their first is stillborn. They are put in the Fortress, a maximum security prison run by a computer and a mysterious warden. He manages to survive amid the endlessly brutal captors and other prisoners, then hatches a complicated plot with his fellow prisoners to free his wife and escape.
The review of this Movie prepared by Rob



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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book Actual chase scenes or violence 40%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle 30%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% **Fantasy or Science Fiction?**    -   science fiction story Repressive Society    -   Yes Repression:    -   locks you away    -   controls your mind    -   controls your sex

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Profession/status:    -   infantry soldier    -   military officer, senior Age:    -   20's-30's Ethnicity/Nationality    -   White (American) Unusual characteristics:    -   Super sensitive soggy jelly muffin

Setting

Earth setting:    -   near future (later in 21st century)    -   Over controlled society Takes place on Earth?    -   Yes Misc settings    -   prison

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   very explicit references to deaths and torture Tone of movie    -   upbeat Sex/nudity in movie?    -   Yes What kind of sex:    -   society controls main character's sexuality    -   sex under blankets Kinds of F/X    -   exploding vehicles    -   exploding bombs    -   nasty human transformations

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