The new Prisoner

[ksmith]

It's weird. It concludes tomorrow night, so I'll be sticking with it till the end, but still. Weird, in a European art flick kinda way.

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[windrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm still not sure what I think of it.

I will say this: visually, it's quite interesting.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'll be very disappointed if it turns out to be a drug-induced dream, and at the end we find Caviezel strapped to a hospital bed in the deepest basements of his former company.

Moving the story to a desert setting increased the sense of isolation, I thought. The sense that there's no one around but you. In that case, I would ask them how they explain the different races and accents within such a small population.

The addition of children makes it a little scary. Those kids in that investigations class were completely warped.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

It's not as if the original wasn't weird!

[windrose.livejournal.com]

I'll be very disappointed if it turns out to be a drug-induced dream

Yes, or some sort of shared virtual world, a la the Matrix.

Moving the story to a desert setting increased the sense of isolation, I thought.

The desert setting is wonderful, and heightens the surreality of it all. I keep wondering if this is going to have some 9-11 connection, given the ghostly glass towers looming in the distance and the fact that Caviezel's character is from New York.

I would ask them how they explain the different races and accents within such a small population.

That, and the different accents.

The addition of children makes it a little scary.

The addition of children makes it terrifying, IMO.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It was, but there was an energy running through it that seemed to hold it all together. This new version is Land of the Lost, including at times the audience.