No, my martyrdom with "Convicts" is not that it tormented me during watching it due to its slowness and empty content as it did to other viewers. I can fully understand the 1-star-reviews, but my torment was exactly the opposite. You see, while one viewer has gotten hold of this movie and would like to burn it, another viewer desperately wanted it but couldn't get it. That in fact is the full spectrum of its history.
Without the greatest expectations, I watched this unspectacular but heartfelt movie when it last aired on TV in my country in 1995. I had no video tape recorder of my own back then, so I missed the opportunity to add it to the movie collection my father had created for himself and me. Shortly after that, I decided to buy my own VTR and to start my personal collection, always waiting for a rerun of "Convicts".
It never came.
For years and years it haunted me that my decision to initiate a movie collection came a little too late. Worse than that, when I bought my first DVD player, this still didn't solve my problem, since I never could find a DVD release of "Convicts" in my country. When finally more than two decades later someone offered me a self-made DVD as a compensation for a favour, it felt like birthday, wedding day and Christmas (because the story takes place at Christmas) all at once, like a déjà-vu that I never dared to expect to experience again. Since that day I treat it like my personal sanctuary.
Without the greatest expectations, I watched this unspectacular but heartfelt movie when it last aired on TV in my country in 1995. I had no video tape recorder of my own back then, so I missed the opportunity to add it to the movie collection my father had created for himself and me. Shortly after that, I decided to buy my own VTR and to start my personal collection, always waiting for a rerun of "Convicts".
It never came.
For years and years it haunted me that my decision to initiate a movie collection came a little too late. Worse than that, when I bought my first DVD player, this still didn't solve my problem, since I never could find a DVD release of "Convicts" in my country. When finally more than two decades later someone offered me a self-made DVD as a compensation for a favour, it felt like birthday, wedding day and Christmas (because the story takes place at Christmas) all at once, like a déjà-vu that I never dared to expect to experience again. Since that day I treat it like my personal sanctuary.