A Prophet

A Prophet is a gritty and compelling film about a Muslim convict who becomes a kingpin. Malik is put in prison without any friends on the inside or out. He is told to kill another Muslim prisoner or be killed by the Corsicans and once he succeeds, they allow him to hang out as a sort of mascot. His victim’s advice is for Malik to come out smarter than when he came in. So he learns to read and write and studies the Corsicans-learning their ways and language. His political skills also increase as he makes friends and alliances with other groups to establish a new order in the prison and a hash smuggling ring. When the film ends the man who arrived in prison with nothing leaves with a new family and the kingpin of a large hash smuggling business. It is a sort of French Goodfellas in a sense.