Socialist Challenge1979Socialist Challenge No. 115, 27 September 1979Scum-'Only the most brutal rise to the top
Socialist Challenge No. 115, 27 September 1979 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 142 words
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page 15 of the scan
Borstal is shown in the film to be a mirror image of the hierarchy of a Public school. The toughest and most brutal rise to the top and create A the top of the pyramid is thes ard boy create a tag-like system oi in the story who helps the screws keep order.
In one scene when 'Daddy', the third boy, smashes another inmate in the face with a sock Tul or Dinare Dals, une vice tels the screw de lackeys "fell'.
Another screw watches while a boy is raped by three others and calmly tells the boy to get on with his work, accepting his explanation of having tripped'. The unwritten agreement between screws and 'Daddy' is like a microcosm of the The uniformed screws maintain their control by setting the 'trainees' against each
page 16 of the scan
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