So, in Chile, only convicts have tattoos?

I was wondering the same thing - it looked like the "twist" convict guy had a bunch of tattoos. Maybe it's a cultural thing, like the elaborate prison tats Russian prisoners get? Although in the dark, in extreme pain, and being an American foreigner, I sincerely doubt any of that would have registered to her.

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Nop.

Heh, getting a tattoo is a bad life choice convict or not.

I didn't study the tattoos in the film but one "13" was prominent, which is a notorious drug gang symbol (MS-13, Mara Salvatrucha) in Central America and the US, presumably in Chile as well. It's fairly common among convicts in, for example, California, Arizona and New Mexico. Gangs do control prison populations - apparently that's universal. Overall, prison tattoos are a permanent way of affiliating oneself with a group, often for security.

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That's an odd question given that we see a tramp-stamp tattoo on the vineyard tour guide at the beginning of the film.

Of course not. But the convicts had a specific tattoo (I think it was a panther). It had to do with the specific prison they were in.

Until the 1990s, pretty much only convicts (and sailors) had tattoos in the USA. So its actually quite plausible.