45 years ago, Dustin Hoffman served Straight Time, one of his most deeply researched and underappreciated performances. itismitchell goes long on the critical crime drama:
After serving a six-year sentence for armed robbery, Max Dembo is released from prison without much to his name. Leaving the penitentiary gates behind him, he walks out with other former inmates who are greeted by their families in their cozy station wagons, welcoming them back to their lives. Max is alone, hopping on a bus to the city where options are scarce. As he puts it, “I just want a decent job, somebody to love me. Clothes on my back. Some self-respect.
Looking for a job, Dembo heads to a temp agency where he meets employee Jenny Mercer , who helps him find a position working for a can company cleaning trash in their factory. Dembo explains his situation to her, detailing how he can’t handle money and he can’t even drive a car without permission.
Dembo retreats back into his old ways, accepting there’s no real opportunity out there to go straight once you’ve been branded a criminal. Reflecting on his many conversations with Bunker to understand the psychology of an ex-con, Hoffman details in the commentary how prisons aren’t designed for rehabilitation. “Penitentiaries aren’t for being penitent,” he says. You come out of those walls much more of a danger to yourself and to society than you were when you went in.
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