Word: bildungsroman
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Because the protagonist, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), enters the prison at the age of nineteen after dropping out of school at eleven, the film isn’t as much a gangster picture as it is a bildungsroman. He doesn’t just learn how to kill people, or how to build a drug empire from the inside; El Djebena also learns how to read and write. Through his brief encounters on the outside, he also discovers what there is to live for in the real world...
...genre [bildungsroman] entails much more than that,” Claybaugh wrote. “The genre asks what it means for a young man or woman to take his or her place in society, and so it explores the kinds of compromises and accommodations that society requires...