ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

baldrickadder First review for me today, I've been reading reviews for a little while, so much so that, I;ve been more entertained reading them and missing all the good programmes I could be watching.Anyway regarding The Prisoner and the theories of what it may mean. I feel it could be any number of things and that's the beauty of using your mind. Like life, there's not just black and white, one person's reality of something will always differ from somebodies else's reality, but see the same thing.Personally I think it is just a sixties trip and better if you are chilled out, so to speak.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The Prisoner, 1967, A life-long English secret agent abruptly resigns from his job and is kidnapped into a strange fantasy village on a isolated seashore of an anonymous country. The village staff work their vast interrogation techniques on the X-secret agent or #6 to find out why he left his job and reveal all his mission secrets.*Special Stars- Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Unit Production Manager: Bernard Williams.*Theme- Man will not be controlled when his freedom is at stake. *Trivia/location/goofs- British, TV series of 17 episodes. Portmeirion, Wales is where The Village is. The location was built by an eccentric artist and building salvager from the 17th century. Every episode has another new actor playing the role of evil antagonist against the show's hero, #6. The Rover is a large weather balloon. *Emotion- An excellent TV series for action, drama and to explore real modern societal issues through story telling. This TV show takes you on a mind-bending trip that pushes your imagination to the limit. Take an unforgettable journey to The Village, run by sophisticated 'jailers' whose one mission is to 'break' the new inhabitants and find out everything the inhabitants/villagers know about their recent top-secret government jobs of spying. It takes you alongside Britain's best secret agent, John Drake or #6 men whose missions are to preserve Britian from all manner of threats and by any means necessary. This film has become a cult classic with discussions about it's minutia and plot meanings of this multi-layered thought provoking TV show. Ahead of it's time interesting. A Blog telling about Patrick McGoohan's later in life dealings with a TV writer, just before McGoohan's death. LINK:http://www.2ndwindproductions.org/peopleilike/patrick-mcgoohan

orinocowomble I first saw The Prisoner when it was originally broadcast. I was about 6 at the time, and I telling myself, "OK...I don't "get" this because I'm a kid." I loved the Village, the clothes, and in a bizarre way, Rover. But I knew I didn't understand it. I did catch on to the basic messages of "man as just another number in society" and "Who are the bad guys? Are the "good guys" the bad guys? Who's in charge here, really?" Having with much older, social-activist siblings probably helped; but I must it I watched it because they did. In 2004 I had the opportunity to see the series again, and I thought, "Now's my chance to see what this was really about." I watched it with my European husband. I still didn't "get" it, and neither did he. Oh, the anti-totalitarian message was still there...very much of its time and place...but it was just as bizarre and confusing as the first time. I never did figure out the significance of the penny-farthing bicycle that appears in sculpture, paintings and pins on people's clothing...but then I don't think you're supposed to. As for McGoohan's over-the-top acting...well, the less said about that, the better. Styles change with the decades, but even so...ugh. You don't *have* to be high to watch The Prisoner...but it probably helps.

robertguttman Forget the tedious and drab 2009 remake, this is the version of The Prisoner to see. While most 1960s television seems dated, The Prisoner still remains as fresh, original, visually dazzling and enigmatic as it was in 1967. There was absolutely nothing like it then and, in spite of the production of the lame 2009 remake, there's still nothing like it. incredibly, even that distinctive sports car Number 6 drives in the surreal opening sequence is still manufactured today!The story is a nightmare blend of James Bond with Franz Kafka. It begins as a man resigns his job in a rage. Precisely what his job was is never precisely spelled out, but the implication is that he was some type of operative for an unnamed government intelligence agency. As he is packing his bags to leave he is put to sleep by gas. He then awakens to find himself in a mysterious and surreal community known only as "The Village", where he had become a prisoner. With the exception of the s, The Prisoner has no idea which of the rest of the population are fellow prisoners and which are warders. Despite the otherwise cheerful surroundings closed circuit TV cameras are everywhere, and no one and nothing is to be trusted. It is a paranoid nightmare in which The Prisoner (known only as "Number 6") must match wits and wills with the titular head of The Village (known only as "Number 2") in his efforts to escape, or at least to maintain his individuality. The series combines outstanding writing with an equally outstanding cast, headed by the scowling and ever-recalcitrant Patrick McGoohan. Along with the usual 60s futuristic high tech accessories, the production benefits greatly from the unique appearance of the exteriors of "The Village", which were filmed at Portmerion, in Wales. It is a bizarre place that simply looks like no other community on the face of the earth. Combined with the colorful, pseudo-Edwardian clothes warn by inmates and warders alike, the entire production has a completely original appearance, like nothing else ever done before or since.Most of all, The Prisoner is a television series that makes it's audience think. It asks more questions than it answers about the nature of the relationship of the individual and the community. In some ways, such as the Village's use of closed circuit TV to monitor every inch of the community, with the resulting lack of privacy, The Prisoner is actually closer to everyday life today, and thus more relevant to contemporary society, than it was more than forty years ago.