"What was that? Sounded like a click, something in the mirror? Over there, yes over there too!"
{No.2 Arrival}
So there was a camera in the mirror! Someone had been watching the Prisoner before his abduction to the Village. His own people perhaps? By why would they do that? Perhaps the Prisoner had become suspect of something, something that would eventually lead to his resignation!
But then if it wasn't his own people, but someone else, perhaps some foreign agency. Or another British government department other than the one the Prisoner worked for, who wanted this man for reasons unknown, who finally had the Priosner abducted to the Village before he could get away, in the hope of extracting the information inside the Prisoner's head. Yet on the other hand, if it is the Prisoner's own people who are behind the Village and had the Prisoner under close surveillance, had he become suspect of something? So that when the Prisoner handed in his resignation it forced their hand, and they had the Prisoner abducted to the Village before he could get away. Thereby securing and protecting the information inside the Prisoner's head. It works both ways you see, it's simply a question of interpretation.
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Hello David,
ReplyDeleteI guess, One wants to know everything..
What I find also thrilling is that surveillance went much further but only keep him under control during his employment. It's as if he has been filed and indexed since his birth or earliest childhood. I've always thought that this was done by his former employers, but it's an interesting idea that another department or even country might be responsible.
In a way the surveillance of the Prisoner before his resignation seems to be the same that the village continues when he arrives there.
Perhaps, if we want to think that all happens in the mind of the prisoner, it could also be taken as an act of Number 1, or maybe our (bad) conscience, who control every step we take..? I guess there are many possible interpretations.
Very best wishes,
Jana
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Although unlikely that No. 6 should have been monitored from as early as his childhood by some obscure "service" this scene is one more indication for the theory of the Village as a (then: future) state of mind. People being watched, stamped, filed and indexed was a horrible prospect in those days but has become a household item today. - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno and Jana,
ReplyDeleteThe pictures of the infant Prisoner, and into his childhood, could have simply been taken from the family album, and not through any surveillance {hints of the film The Truman Show}. No.2 did say that they like to know everything, but going all the way back to the Prisoner's infancy is going a bit too far me thinks!
To me there is one true aim of the Village Administration, and that is the collection of information. And in todays society information is king. Information about everything we do, everywhere we go, even to the extent of collecting information on our buying habits at the supermarket!
Regards
David
BCNU