Anyone else seen it? I'd been told it was rubbish but it actually wasn't too bad. I've done a review, so I won't bore you with it all here.
Suffice to say, if you were mulling over watching it, do so, it's not so bad as THEY say it is.... whoever THEY are.
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There are some interesting ideas but I think The Prisoner did this better. I didnt care about the characters. All I could conclude was Myrna and Sam both became less controlling after they got together - he believed in letting people out into the community ready or not, she started to dance for herself, even if it wasnt very graceful. The other characters seemed to find their own place when released. It all seemed a bit sterile - The sex scenes are graphic but I think the maid making no. 6's cocoa had a more charged atmosphere to it!
The plot seems similar to The Prisoner movie proposed in the 90s. I.e. PM takes over as a benign head and a new no. 6 challanges him.
The plot seems similar to The Prisoner movie proposed in the 90s. I.e. PM takes over as a benign head and a new no. 6 challanges him.Daalder had all the writing credits to himself though. The idea of violence being impossible because you had to feel your victim's pain was most interesting. It would also explain why they kept the bondage guy in the cellar, away from everyone else!
Yeah I realise PM didnt write it, although on some past projects he has contributed to the script and I didnt know if he had on this one.
The possibilities of shared consciousness are mind boggling. I dont think pain, physical or mental, would stop Bondage guy from doing something - quite the reverse! Perhaps thats why Langston's experiment took on a life of its own. Langston saw shared consciousness simply as a good thing, that people could experience falling in love all the time and be happy. This didnt seem to happen at his institution - in fact Myrna strongly wanted someone to love HER. As she seemed the powerful one perhaps her pain and unhappiness were transmitted to everyone else?
A strange movie, in some ways it has the feel of a low budget horror, but some of the cast i think were dance trained and their movement and costume were quite beautiful.
I realise PM didnt write it, although on some past projects he has contributed to the script and I didn't know if he had on this one.Just watched it again and I'm sure you're probably correct about the elements of Patrick McGoohan's 1990's prisoner re-write. There were pretty clear references to prisoners and villages etc. I could see how Langstone was the number one and Myrna his number two, with Sam as the number six. It was a different take on individuality however with the case for the 'group mind' being argued against Sam's evident self-centredness in his quest for individual pre-eminence.