‘A B &
C’ is a primary example of surrealism in ‘the Prisoner,’ as much of the episode
takes place in Number 6's dream. And towards the end, with Number 6 only
partially drugged, and now manipulating his own dream, Numbers 2 and 14 watch
closely his projected visions unfold on the wall screen. Finally through a pair
of large wooden doors, Number 6 emerges from a street somewhere in Paris to an area on the fringe of The
Village. He then makes his way through the woods to the secret laboratory. The
steel doors open automatically and he walks along a corridor slapping a thigh
with an envelope he carries. And all the time Numbers 2 and 14 watch his
progress on the wall screen. Then the pair of steel doors open and Number 6
walks into the laboratory.
However that is on the wall screen, the
actual door to the laboratory remains closed.
For both Numbers 2 and 14 it must have been a
very surreal moment to see the pair of steel doors of the laboratory slide open
and Number 6 come walking into the laboratory, but for the actual doors to
remain closed. Then to watch Number 6 give Number 2 an envelope, with Number 2 urging
himself then to open the envelope, “Open it you fool, open it!”
But thinking on a deep subconscious
level, its would have been even more surreal had Numbers 2 and 14 {looking at
the closed steel doors in the above picture} had actually seen Number 6 come
walking into the laboratory, with himself still lying on the operating table!
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