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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 13:52:23 EST
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In article <1360@hao.UUCP> ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) writes:
>This is posted for Dave Kliman  (Drexel!dave)... 
>
>What is "the prisoner"?  Could someone out there please explain 
>to me what that series is all about?

The prisoner is a 1967 TV series starring Patrick McGoohan. It lasted 17
espisodes, and relates the story of a british secret agent that resigns for
unknown reasons. He is gassed in his apartment, and wakes up in the
Village. Everyone in the Village is either a rebel like himself or a plant
of the people who run it-- they could either be his side, trying to find
out why he resigned, or their side, trying to find out what he knows. They
are trying to break him, he is trying to escape. It can be interpreted in a
very Kafkaesque mode, and also in terms of an Orwellian society if you
want-- nobody in the Village has a name, (McGoohan is #6, and the Village
is overseen by #2). It is very surrealistic, very thought provoking, and
very well done. You need to really pay attention to it or it will look like
a rather random piece of film, but it all ties together quite well.

chuq
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An important point:

There were many hints (but no solid clues) that the Village was run by 

a) the "ememy"

b) the "company"

c) the british secret service

d) all or none of the above

Of course, the ending explained it all (or did it?)...


				blues, II

	(the opinions expressed here are those of my great-uncle Julius...)