Brokedown Palace

Hank learns that Alice and Darlene have been best friends since childhood and decided to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate highschool graduation. They are a bit foolish and presume that they are immune from most troubles because they are Americans, as if that would protect them in a foreign country. They have taken this trip without telling their parents where they are going, and one of the reasons for the trip is to get away from parents and even laws, as if the latter were possible. They like Bangkok but not their $6 a night room, so they engage in a number of foolish escapades, such as trying to swim in the pool at a luxury hotel. They have trouble when it is time to pay for their drinks, and this is when they meet Nick Parks, who helps them out. They see him as a charming man of the world, making it easier for him to dupe them when he talks them into taking a trip to Hong Kong for the

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are not defending their clients but are accomplices in seeing to it that they are convicted and jailed. There may be some rationale that everyone believes them to be guilty, and of course, this is not the American legal system but a foreign one the viewer will only understand to the degree he or she is told by the filmmakers. Still, as used in this film, the system is corrupt. This raises the issue of how ethical the filmmakers are being. Are they saying that the system is really this corrupt, or have they manipulated reality in order to tell the story a certain way and gain sympathy for their main characters? They may believe they have undercut this issue by having Kim, Hank's wife, be a Thai who works for justice, but that is not the effect. Indeed, it could be argued that Kim has the attitude she has because she is married to an American, who has taught her the "right" way in some fashion. In this way, the film itself seems to mirror the Ugly American image that the girls represent at the beginning, thinking they can do what they want because they are not at home and believing they will be protected because they are Americans. The film does not insist that there has been injustice committed for anyone but Americans, whic
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)