Punishment Park

1971

Action / Drama / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 8631 8.6K

police brutality hippie dystopia soldier mockumentary struggle for survival

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Plot summary

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

Director

Peter Watkins Photo
Peter Watkins

Top cast

John Kerry Photo
John Kerry as Policeman
Carmen Argenziano Photo
Carmen Argenziano as Jay Kaufman, Tribunal Defendant
Fred Franklyn Photo
Fred Franklyn as James Daly, Defense Attorney
Peter Watkins Photo
Peter Watkins as Documentarist
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
838.76 MB
960*720
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 1
1.52 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 41

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

This mockumentary seemed real to us throughout the

This mockumentary seemed real to us throughout the video. The images were very shocking and very real, which made us believe that it was a real documentary, directed by a producer. Indeed we could think that it was authentic because of the voices off and the monotonous tone of it. Some scenes have made us very angry, such as the scene where the black man sees himself cut off, even prevented from speaking, or the scene where a woman is ejected from the courtroom to calm down.
Reviewed by Lorenzo G 3 / 10

Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park is a mockumentary so

Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park is a mockumentary so convincingly staged that fiction and documentary blur into something genuinely unsettling. Set against the Nixon era, it imagines a dystopian escalation in which emergency powers allow the state to detain "subversives" with no due process. The premise is bold: political dissidents hunted across the desert for sport. As cinema, though, it’s a hard watch for the wrong reasons. The low-fi aesthetic produces a visual drabness that, paired with a repetitive structure, generates stasis instead of tension. And here lies the deeper problem. A director has almost infinite ways to say something urgent… Cinema gives you editing, sound, silence, metaphor. You can show a trembling hand that lands harder than the most impassioned speech. Watkins chooses to scream. And paradoxically, the louder he screams, the less you hear.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Reviewed by Emmeric G 9 / 10

The best mockumentary i've ever seen. I was

The best mockumentary i've ever seen. I was on the edge of my seat all the way long and I wanted to jump cross the screen to fight with the characters. This film is something else let me say it!!
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