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Thousands of slave laborers in southern Pakistan are rising up against landlords who have shackled and sold them for hundreds of years.
Anyway, Instinct is built around that theater standby, the series of charged encounters between a psychiatrist and a shackled patient, during which it dawns on the doctor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that he and his society are the ones who are actually in need of curing.
The hero is no longer Pip but Finn, who is frolicking in the waves among the gulls when a shackled and bloodied escaped killer (Robert De Niro) erupts from the water and forces him to bring food and drink and a tool for cutting chains.
At year's end, there was another film like that, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia . I would not dream of revealing what happens at the end of that movie, but I wanted to cheer when it did happen, because Anderson was demonstrating in a way both comic and bizarre that all narrative is arbitrary--that no matter what happens next, it need not, and that no director need feel shackled by audience or studio expectations.
pretzel the position of a prisoner immobilized by being handcuffed behind and, with his knees bent, having his crossed ankles shackled; used in subduing particularly unruly prisoners.