
‘Inside’: Guy Pearce Is a Lit Fuse of Internal Contradictions in Haunting Prison Drama
‘Inside’: Guy Pearce Is a Lit Fuse of Internal Contradictions in Haunting Prison Drama
Cosmo Jarvis and new talent Vincent Miller complete a triangle of violent criminals in Charles Williams’ debut feature about incarcerated men working to redirect their lives.
The suffocating environment of a prison system depicted with maximum authenticity makes a combustible setting for Inside, a drama exploring inherited damage via three different convicted felons, each of them trying in his own way to circumvent a fate seemingly written in their DNAs. Offering further evidence that Guy Pearce, following The Brutalist and The Shrouds, has become one of our most gifted and versatile actors, Charles Williams’ feature debut shapes a volatile triangle of broken men, fleshed out by an astonishing Cosmo Jarvis and impressive newcomer Vincent Miller.
While not directly inspired by his own experiences, Williams drew on his working-class upbringing with family members in and out of prison and a father who disappeared from his life at age 12 to shape a view that’s honest and unflinching but also tempered by compassion.
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