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Today I'll explain a biographical drama movie, Papillon. Spoilers incoming.
A man named Papillon is trying to open the locker. He succeeds, steels the diamonds,
and escapes the window. He goes to his boss. His boss's men are holding a guy who is badly wounded.
His boss tells Papillon that I did this to him for betraying me. Therefore, he should
also be careful. Handing over the diamond to the boss, he comes out with the money.
Papillon is outside waiting for his girlfriend, Nanette. He presents her with a beautiful necklace
and shows her some diamonds he would not have given to his boss. After that, they both go for a
walk, drink wine, and have a great night. Nanette tells him that they should move away from here and
start a new life. But Papillon tells him to wait for six months to raise as much money as possible.
But Nanette rejected the offer saying she could not wait another six months. It wasn't
long before the door knocked, and the police came in to arrest Papillon for killing a man.
The victim was the same person who had been caught by Papillon's boss last night.
Nanette says Papillon was with her all night, but the police don't listen to her
and take Papillon with them. In prison, Nanette visits Papillon and tells him he wants to appeal.
Why is he punished for a crime he didn't commit, but Papillon says it's useless. It's
a well-thought-out conspiracy. He tells Nanette to forget him; she replies it's not possible.
In prison, a man named, Julot tells Papillon that if you don't have money,
you can never get out of here. During the check, Julot shows Papillon Louise Dega,
a millionaire, and has money in prison.
The next day all the prisoners are sent by a massive ship to Devil's Island. To this day,
no one has been able to escape. Papillon goes to Dega during the travel and informs him that
everyone is watching him because of his money. I'll do everything I can to keep you alive,
and you'll give me as much money as I need to get out of here. But Dega forbids him by saying
that it is better to give money to the guard than to give him. That same night, a powerful
prisoner cuts another prisoner's stomach lying with Dega and takes money out. Seeing all this,
Dega feels his life is in danger. The next day Dega tells Papillon that he has accepted the deal.
Papillon kept him alive until his wife's appeal was granted. The same prisoner comes forward to
attack Dega the next night, but Papillon does not allow the prisoner to succeed, and the whole-cell
runs amok. In this case, the guards blow hot steam on them, which injures the killer prisoner.
The next day the ship arrives at its destination. All the prisoners are lined up to avoid chaos.
Juliot injures his leg so he can go to the hospital and find a way to escape. The warden
tells all the new prisoners on the island that you are all thinking about getting out of here.
You may try as you are all free, but if anyone is seen, they will be shot, and if you escape the
bullet, you will starve to death because there is nothing here but thorny bushes. And if you
want to run by sea, there will be hungry sharks waiting for you, and you will fall prey to them.
And if you come back, you will be in solitary confinement for two years. If you try to run away
a second time, you will be in solitary confinement for five years, and you will live on this island
for the rest of your life. If you kill someone, you will be killed too then the warden leaves.
Papillon and Dega have to do a lot of hard work here. While they pull a trolley on a track,
Dega tells Papillon that he has diarrhea. As a result,
some of his money falls on the track, which Papillon picks out after much effort.
His eyes fall on a man with a boot. Papillon asks him if he can get us out of here. I'll give you
two thousand dollars in return. The man calls the guard; suddenly, Papillon says he will provide him
with four thousand dollars. And so the man agrees and avoids the guard by saying something else.
He says to Papillon, "My boat is on the other side of the river." I will stay here for three
more days. You can come there anytime, but I will take five thousand dollars instead of four.
Some of the prisoners on the island know that Dega has money,
and they want to snatch his money from him, but Papillon saves Dega once again. He fights them
and gets injured. Here Dega realizes that he can no longer live with these prisoners.
Dega tells Papillon at night that he had no idea this would happen. He thinks as long as his wife
gets him out of here, these prisoners will kill him. Now he is ready to go with Papillon.
The next morning, Juliot brought in, who intentionally injured his foot and went to
the hospital to escape, killing two policemen while fleeing. He is brought before everyone
and publicly executed. When Juliot dies, Pepin and Dega are assigned to take his dead body
to the forest. They two take the dead body into the forests in the presence of guards.
Papillon sees the opportunity and runs away. He jumps into the river and goes
to the man who told him he would get him out of here for five thousand dollars.
Papillon asks him to get out of here; the man demands money. Pepin says he does not have money,
but he will pay twice the amount demanded if he takes him out of here.
He assures him that he has a lot of money in Paris, but Papillon's plan doesn't work.
The guards stand behind him; the man who has the boot starts laughing and says that even if you had
money now, he wouldn't take him out because the warden pays us twice to report people like you.
Papillon returned to the same prison. The warden tells him that the guard you ran away from by
throwing stones at him, if something happened to him, you would get the same punishment that
Juliot got this morning, whose dead body you were going to throw into the forest. The warden tells
him that he will now be jailed for two years at Sand Joseph Island. There is only one condition
that there should be no noise. For two years now, Papillon should stay that way. Only lentil soup
is served here in the name of food, which makes a person very weak, and most of them even die.
A few days later, Papillon finds a coconut in the water bucket. Dega bribed the guards
and sent for him. That's how Papillon gets a piece of coconut every day. But one day,
the warden notices coconut and asks Papillon who sends you, but Papillon does not name Dega.
The warden orders to half Papillion's ration, so he becomes weak and loses the courage to escape.
Once again, the warden comes to Papillon and asks him to tell the person's name who sent coconuts,
but Papillon shuts his mouth. Now, Papillion's mental health is not the same as before.
Warden directs that Papillon be punished for the rest of his punishment,
and he is locked up as per the order. Papillon stays there for many days.
He becomes mentally weak, and the prison administration sends him to the hospital
for his treatment. Dega is disappointed to see him and says, you were right;
I will not be able to get out of here. My wife is doing well, and she married my lawyer.
Dega apologizes to Papillon because somewhere, he blames himself for Papillion's condition.
Papillon is pretending to be mentally ill. This time Papillion, Dega, and two other prisoners
plan to escape. Two more prisoners are included in the plan because one will arrange a boat,
and the other will dodge the onlooker. Now, they all intend to flee on Sunday
because all the guards and officers here watch the movie on that day.
On Sundays, Dega puts sleeping pills into the guard's drinks.
Because of raining the plan seems to fail, but they manage to escape and fetch the boat.
The boat is small and does not carry four people, so things go wrong; Cellier throws
Maturette into the water, Papillon gets angry and starts the fight with Cellier. To save Papillion,
Dega grabs the knife and stabs Cellier. After that, Papillon throws Cellier's body into the sea.
The storm gets more active, and their boat gets stuck. In the morning,
they are on a Colombian island. They think they are completely free now.
But Nunn knows where these people come from. Papillon wants to leave, but Dega and his
third partner wish to stay here. Papillon goes alone when he sees a police car approaching as
the nun has already informed the police. Papillon goes to Dega to escape the spot,
but they get caught due to Dega's broken leg. Police shoot Maturette on the spot.
Once again, they two return to the Devil's Island. Because Papillon tried to flee again,
he is sent to solitary confinement for five years, where he has already spent two years.
Papillon lives there for another five years and survives. After that, he is sent to Devil
Island High Class. There is not so much security because of high cliffs and the sea on all sides.
When Papillon comes here, he finds that Dega was sent to the island five years ago and knows the
place very well. But he does not want to run away from here because he has now taken over the place.
Papillon still wants to run away, and after watching this place for many days,
he understands that if he goes down to the sea, the waves will carry him to the other side.
He shows Dega by throwing a coconut in the ocean. Coconut floating on the surface of the sea.
Papillon says that if we make a raft out of coconut, we can get out of here. Then they both
collect a lot of coconuts and make a raft from them. But Dega doesn't want to go with Papillion.
Now they go to the top of the rock. They also have a raft that can take Papillon to
the other side of the ocean. Before leaving, Papillon hugs Dega. He then throws the coconut
raft into the sea and jumps. Dega looks down at sea and sees no movement for a long time.
He thinks Papillon is dead. But suddenly, Papillon comes out, and his efforts succeed.
He is now a free man. But he still can't go home because he's still a criminal in France.
In 1969, in Venice, he goes to an editor and give him notes,
in which he has written the whole story of his life.
About 80,000 prisoners were sent to Devils Island;
many of them would have died because of the harsh conditions. Papillion's
book is published in France and has been France's best-selling book for 21 weeks.
The French government allowed Papillon to return to France. Papillion's real name was
Henry Charrier, but Papillon got his name because he had a butterfly tattoo on his back, and the
butterfly is called Papillon in French. The book he wrote is also called Papillion. Devil's Island,
which began in 1852, was closed permanently in 1953, nine years after Papillion's escape.
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