I'm just the opposite - I have all the sympathy for Neal. Sure, he was a criminal, but there's punishment and then there's undue punishment. And a man like Neal would not leave a maximum security prison unscathed. He was a white collar criminal who never hurt anybody and who hates violence of any kind and they stuck him among the worst murderers and rapists and whatnot, the "worst of the worst" as they are called. He had no place in a prison like that and his escape proved that he stayed there of his own volition so a white collar prison would have been enough.
I always remember the audio commentary Justin Lin did for Fast&Furious where he talked about how they wanted Brian - played by the blue-eyed Paul Walker - to land in prison, but when he talked to convincts and asked about what would happen to a man like Brian in prison, they said outright that a man like that would get either raped every day or he would have to join the Aryans who would "protect" him.
Based on that, the reality of someone like Neal in a prison like that would be horrifying. It's not just about losing freedom for several years, it's about carrying emotional and psychical scars for the rest of his life.
I did not like that Peter went around telling everybody that Neal was a convict. I understood it when it was about June and her house. But not with the museum owner. He told her basically Neal's life story despite the fact that they were both wired and under surveillance. He could have informed her of Neal being in prison, that would be understandable, but he told her stuff that Neal might consider private and that was uncalled for.
Also, Peter wants Neal to do the right thing and not be a criminal anymore but he goes around telling everybody that he is a criminal and can't be trusted. So Neal's basically Don Quijote here - fighting a lost battle. Whatever he does, people will still only see him as a criminal, so why bother?
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Date: 2010-03-20 12:33 pm (UTC)I always remember the audio commentary Justin Lin did for Fast&Furious where he talked about how they wanted Brian - played by the blue-eyed Paul Walker - to land in prison, but when he talked to convincts and asked about what would happen to a man like Brian in prison, they said outright that a man like that would get either raped every day or he would have to join the Aryans who would "protect" him.
Based on that, the reality of someone like Neal in a prison like that would be horrifying. It's not just about losing freedom for several years, it's about carrying emotional and psychical scars for the rest of his life.
I did not like that Peter went around telling everybody that Neal was a convict. I understood it when it was about June and her house. But not with the museum owner. He told her basically Neal's life story despite the fact that they were both wired and under surveillance. He could have informed her of Neal being in prison, that would be understandable, but he told her stuff that Neal might consider private and that was uncalled for.
Also, Peter wants Neal to do the right thing and not be a criminal anymore but he goes around telling everybody that he is a criminal and can't be trusted. So Neal's basically Don Quijote here - fighting a lost battle. Whatever he does, people will still only see him as a criminal, so why bother?