Movie Trailer Friday: The Escapist

Doesn’t the popularity of prison break movies indicate that we, as a society, should be imprisoning fewer people? I can’t tell you how eager I am to break out of prison, and I’m not even there.

In Kansas City, where I grew up, drivers who have just passed a speed trap flash their lights at oncoming cars, to warn them. It always seemed strange to me (and I did it too). If it was understood that the goal of the majority of the populace was to circumvent the law, then why not change the law?

Maybe it’s because many people operate from a different moral perspective depending on the circumstance; the sanctity of the voting booth and all that. Also, our desire to be sympatico with someone coming toward us in a big metal machine on an empty stretch of asphalt is greater than our desire to respect the wishes of the more anonymous person who drafted the law, much further away in space and time.

Here’s the Quicktime trailer for The Escapist.