tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post5890418354389308850..comments2024-01-21T11:18:54.087-05:00Comments on Lost in the Movies: The Prisoner - "Fall Out"Joel Bockohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-70053672357972295932016-07-14T14:54:55.077-04:002016-07-14T14:54:55.077-04:00Pertinent words right now...Pertinent words right now...Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-45740913429166657402016-07-14T14:38:43.091-04:002016-07-14T14:38:43.091-04:00To remain true to themes in the real world, someti...To remain true to themes in the real world, sometimes in drama a loss is the inescapable outcome - or the viewers would be betrayed, left back in the real economic/political world where Individuals are all Prisoners, while the Hero wins immunity and races into a selfish, isolated happily-ever-after.<br /><br />No, the Prisoner is defiant in solidarity with the Viewer: we have only freed our own minds. We ARE Prisoners; but we are freed from illusions of freedom. That's a loss, but a moral victory, more than pyrrhic: to no longer be an unconscious puppet of Big Brother, or BOB. Outright victory was never an option; so honor your hard-won truth, and never ever stop resisting.prophit1970https://www.blogger.com/profile/14264636350569195193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-68252612237185634682016-04-06T15:08:30.183-04:002016-04-06T15:08:30.183-04:00Well, you got there! I think it's a wonderful ...Well, you got there! I think it's a wonderful piece of television with a lot to chew on. <br /><br />Re "Dem Bones" and intent, it's worth noting that McGoohan was quite a religious man, a practising Catholic who was known to refuse roles for conflicting with his religious views. (Although he was not theologically narrow; he won a BAFTA for his performance in a TV version of Brand, an Ibsen play about the intellectual and moral struggles of a Danish clergyman of a very different kind of Christianity to his own.) James Cooray Smithnoreply@blogger.com