Is there a place more terrible than hell?
Yes! The Prison of Guyana, a French colonial island, is a hell of a curse.
There, jailbreak = send to death, no jailbreak = wait for death.
In all these years, no one has ever successfully escaped from prison.
However, there are people who do not believe in evil and become more courageous the more frustrated they are.
Prisoner Henley escaped from prison eight times and eventually escaped from Guyana prison. After that, he wrote about his escape from prison into his autobiography "Babylon".
No one expected that an autobiography would dominate the bestseller in France for 21 weeks; then Hollywood bought the filming rights for $500,000.
As soon as the film was released, it caused a sensation around the world, and the Douban score has reached 8.7 points so far.
The male protagonist, Henley, was framed and imprisoned for more than ten years.
However, mental and spiritual torture is the real torture compared to physical torture.
Not only must he always be vigilant against being violated by his fellow inmates, but he must also do his best to keep himself from going crazy and living in the dark confinement room...
Fall into hell on earth
Henley was originally a street thug, relying on a stealing craft, and his life was also tasteful.
The blame is that he became greedy for a while and stole a few diamonds from the black boss.
How could the black boss give up and design to charge Henley with false murder, and under some operation, Henley was sentenced to life.
Even more frightening, he went to the French Guiana prison, known as "hell."
The prison is made up of three islands, each of which is a hell on earth, and the most terrifying is Alcatraz.
Although Alcatraz island does not have high walls, it is surrounded by rapids and sharks, and to go to the sea is to die.
The prisoners lived in stone huts, where food was brought from the next island via ropes and wanted to escape unless ribs had wings.
Henley didn't want to throw his life in a Guyana prison.
So from the moment he set foot on the island, he planned how to escape.
But when he arrived at the prison, he didn't know: let alone escape, survival has become a luxury!
On his first day at prison, Henley learned the horrors of the prison.
He saw a prisoner who had escaped and been caught, and his head had his head cut off in public by the warden.
In this prison, human life is not as good as that of ants, and the prison guards have never seen prisoners as human beings.
At the top of the cell is a thick iron fence, which the guards do not stop walking around for 24 hours. There is also a 4-foot-thick door that cuts off all illusions of escaping from prison.
At night, their feet were chained and chained to iron rods to prevent them from being tortured and killed by each other or raped to death.
Prisoners still have endless work to do every day and are beaten endlessly by prison guards.
Dead people have become commonplace.
It can be said that Henley, here, is not as good as a dog.
Not only that, but the prison also has a perverted system that makes it difficult for prisoners to fly with their wings.
Prison provisions:
Escape for the first time, confined to solitary confinement for two years;
The second escape, five years of solitary confinement;
The third escape will be sent to the most terrifying place in prison - Alcatraz Island.
Many people did not even survive the first confinement, died in prison, and could not wait for the second chance to escape.
But Henley was not convinced, even if he was caught and killed, he must escape from prison!
I'm not crazy I'm still alive
However, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very bone.
Every once in a while, pimps drive boats and bring a bunch of prostitutes for the warden and the guards to enjoy.
After learning that the pimps had arrived in the prison, Henley took the opportunity to communicate with the pimps, hoping to get him to sneak on the ship and be willing to pay a high fee.
Unfortunately, before he could even touch the side of the boat, he was caught by the prison guards.
The warden had already said that if any prisoner escaped, no matter how much money the prisoner promised, the warden would double the amount.
Henley failed to escape from prison, and although he was not beheaded, what awaited him was 2 years of solitary confinement that was more terrifying than beheading.
What happens if you are locked up in a confined space for 730 days?
No one knows the answer.
Because the punished prisoners have not survived until 2 years to die, crazy madness.
At first, no one communicated, sleeping on the cold planks, and eating the leftover vegetable soup eaten by the prison guards, made Henley almost collapse.
Within a few days, Henley was tortured to the bone.
Fortunately, the prisoner bought the person who delivered the meal and brought him half a coconut every day.
And this half of the coconut became his only hope for survival.
But before long, this only hope was shattered.
The coconut affair was exposed, and Henley's food was halved, which amounted to a death sentence for him.
Not only that, Butley was deprived of light, leaving him with endless darkness and silence.
Only when he was treated with hair every month could he stick his head out of the cage and see a glimmer of light.
This torture of the mind is more fatal than the torture of the body.
Within a few months, Henley was hallucinating, unable to distinguish between dreams and reality.
In the desert of his dream, Henley trance-like when he hears the judge pronounce his guilt: wasting his life.
Henley suddenly woke up: He was unjustly imprisoned, and if he died because of this, wouldn't he be wasting his life?
He must not go crazy, let alone leave his life here.
Henley grabbed a bug and yelled at the prison guard overhead, "Look at me! I'm eating bugs! But I'm still alive! ”
The crowd looked at him like crazy and thought he was just dying.
But just when everyone thought That Henley was about to finish playing, he miraculously survived.
For two whole years, instead of going crazy, he began to think about how to make a second escape.
I want to live freely
Nothing can hold a heart that yearns for freedom!
The moment he walked out of the confinement cell, Henley had only one thought in his mind: he must escape from prison and leave this damn place.
In order to escape from prison, he began to pretend to be crazy and stupid.
Only in this way can he get enough sleeping pills from the doctor, and use the opportunity to see the doctor to confuse the prison guards and escape from ascension.
In addition to this, he had to find a few helpers:
First of all, someone has to help divert the guards, and secondly, someone has to be responsible for contacting the fleeing ships...
After months of secret screening, Henley finally found 3 other helpers and waited for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape from prison.
On weekends, the warden goes out to watch movies with the guards, and there are only a few guards on duty in the prison.
The plan went well, they charmed the guards, got the keys to the cell, and boarded the boat as they wished.
However, the roof leaked in the rain, and the escape boat leaked, and it was impossible to bear the weight of 4 people.
Infighting was naturally inevitable, and one person was killed during the fight.
But before everyone could relax, the storm came again, and the boat was crumbling...
The remaining 3 survived the storm and successfully landed.
I thought I could let the bird fly in the sky, but the result was to punch me in the face.
Before their butts were hot, they were surrounded by police: the prison uniforms they were wearing betrayed them.
Locals suspected they were criminals who had sneaked out and called the police.
The jailbreak failed again, and this time he would wait for Henley for 5 years of confinement.
Everyone believes that this time Henley is dead, 2 years of confinement is already the limit of human beings, 5 years of confinement is unimaginable.
But Henley refreshed the warden's cognition again, and Henley not only did not go crazy, but also survived healthily.
This was the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on the warden, who decided to send Henley to the legendary ultimate prison: Alcatraz.
There are no high walls here, because the surrounding water rapids and sharks are enough to kill, and to go to the sea is to die.
His fellow inmates urged him to confess his fate, but Unly was unmoved, going to the cliff day after day to observe the laws of the tides.
Henley went from a young man to an old man with white hair, but only the heart that wanted to be free never changed.
Kung Fu pays off.
Finally, on a dark night, Henley waited for the best tidal timing.
So he took a bag of coconuts that he had prepared long ago and plunged into the sea...
The true originator of jailbreak
The film "Babylon" is based on the novel of the same name.
The film is named "Babylon" because in French, the transliteration of butterfly is "Babylon", and Henley happens to have a butterfly-shaped tattoo on his chest.
After The story of Henley was well known to everyone, the three words of Babylon became synonymous with "immortal heart, born to freedom".
What is even more shocking is that "Babylon" comes from real events, which is the author's personal experience of Henley.
Henrimont was unjustly imprisoned for decades and finally miraculously managed to escape from Alcatraz.
During this period, he escaped from prison 8 times and was imprisoned twice in a dark cell.
Even after being sent to the feared Alcatraz Island, Henley's thirst for freedom never stopped...
"Some birds are destined not to be kept in cages, and every feather of theirs shines with the radiance of freedom."
This is a line from The Shawshank Redemption, and it is best used to describe Henley.
Because it is not the high walls outside that crush the prisoners in prison, nor the vicious prison guards and wardens, but the endless silence and darkness.
It is a slow erosion of hope and courage in the hearts of prisoners until they become "living dead."
The male protagonist, Henley, has never yielded, even if his body is locked, but his heart yearning for freedom has never been locked.
Repeated defeats are luck, and repeated defeats are spirits.
As long as the heart that pursues freedom does not die, the heart is free.