News Column  Local movie 'Escape from Babylon' opens in Trinidad
August 24, 2013   Aug. 24--PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- In
Caribbean society, where citizens are fixated on what a criminal
should look like and who is a criminal, the locally produced and
directed movie Escape from Babylon shows another side of
reality, featuring the local night life in Trinidad, with the
entire movie filmed on location.  When the movie hit theatres on
Wednesday, August 21, cinemagoers got a glimpse into an
underworld of contrasting lifestyles of ex-cop turned vigilante
and a serial killer with similar ambitions -- to be heroes in
their own world.  Escape from Babylon shows scenes of the
stresses of crime and seeks to shift the goalposts for a better
end result. Ex-cop Randolph Briggs turned taxi driver working
the night shift in the capital city of Port Of Spain. "Although
drummed out of the police force for unjust reasons, he continues
to watch over the city he once protected all the while a serial
killer posing as another tax