I was just reading a blog by Roger Ebert called, The best art films of 2010. This blog is like the back cover of a book, giving you a decent preview and making you interested in the movie. One that seemed really interesting to me was called, "A Prophet". I was unable to find the significance of the title in Rogers review.
The story is about a man of Arab descent named Malik. From what I gathered he committed a murder, which left him shaking, angered, frustrated, its hard to tell and that is the key to the film. He enters prison as a naive and sheltered outsider, knowing little of the prison world, and is ordered by a prison gang to kill another man. The prison gang is run by a man with the presence of a mob leader who controls everything that happens behind bars. Malik is instructed on how to hide a razor in is mouth and slit the throat of his target. During his stay in the prison, he is transformed, he is prepared to kill, and he is released back onto the streets.
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