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'Carandiru', based on the memoirs of a prison doctor in Brazil, is a fairly conventional prison movie, telling us the criminals' stories (as told to their medic) of life both outside and inside the bars; but it's still an absorbing tale, with moments of humanity flashing through the holes in a very grim backdrop: the ending feels like overkill until you learn the sobering statistics of the real event on which it was based.