“We’re not quite sure what it means,” said
one member of the Awards Committee. And neither were we, not until Number 6
explained it to us. He said it means what it is, but what is it? ‘The Prisoner’
can mean different things to everyone, and no two people may have the same
ideas, yet may agree on others. Forty-eight years on, and still enthusiasts
differ about the meaning of ‘the Prisoner.’ That’s because there is no one
definitive meaning to ‘the Prisoner,’ explanations, theories, and
interpretations are as varied as the individuals who appreciate the series.
‘The Prisoner’ created more questions than
it answered, what’s more Patrick McGoohan wasn’t quite so forthcoming about the
series as Number 6 was about explaining his abstract sculpture. It all depends
on how you look at it, and there is more than one way of doing that. ‘The
Prisoner’ a work of art? Well it has been described as being so, abstract art perhaps,
but mostly surrealist.
‘The Prisoner’ left so many unanswered
questions, and there’s no chance of getting answers to those questions now. So
we are left to interpret those unanswered questions for ourselves, rightly or
wrongly. I cannot think of another forty-eight year old television series which
left so many unanswered questions, still having the ability to vex us today.
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