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Here's Portmeirion from across the bay. We took the toll road to get there, over the rickety wooden railway bridge and through the narrow rocky gorge. I love it, but Gaynor hates crossing water.
This is where they filmed 'The Prisoner'. I've been around the village a number of times and despite what Patrick McGoohan says at the start of each episode increasingly we are all numbers.
Nice view isn't it? Hard to believe that back in the sixties huge white globes chased Number Six across the sands that I can see from where I'm standing. I remember as a young child watching 'The Prisoner'. It was all a bit scary, but even at that age I knew that it was very different and intriguing. It seemed impossible then that there might be an island where you were watched all of the time and camera images could be played back to use against you by the authorities.
Impossible...
Each of us is captured on camera at least fourteen times a day. If we are in our cars for longer than two hours we can be captured as many as two hundred times. We are filmed in the bank, in the supermarket, in the street. Local authorities have begun to use cameras to catch and fine people for putting out their bins on the wrong day, allowing their dogs to foul the footpath, and dropping litter. The police are considering putting cameras in pub car parks and within pubs to film drink drivers.
We are the most filmed nation on earth .
Are we film stars or have we become prisoners on our own island? Are we free men and women or are we numbers?
Impossible.
Anyway, let's just enjoy the view, but be careful what you get up to... you never know who's watching you.
This is where they filmed 'The Prisoner'. I've been around the village a number of times and despite what Patrick McGoohan says at the start of each episode increasingly we are all numbers.
Nice view isn't it? Hard to believe that back in the sixties huge white globes chased Number Six across the sands that I can see from where I'm standing. I remember as a young child watching 'The Prisoner'. It was all a bit scary, but even at that age I knew that it was very different and intriguing. It seemed impossible then that there might be an island where you were watched all of the time and camera images could be played back to use against you by the authorities.
Impossible...
Each of us is captured on camera at least fourteen times a day. If we are in our cars for longer than two hours we can be captured as many as two hundred times. We are filmed in the bank, in the supermarket, in the street. Local authorities have begun to use cameras to catch and fine people for putting out their bins on the wrong day, allowing their dogs to foul the footpath, and dropping litter. The police are considering putting cameras in pub car parks and within pubs to film drink drivers.
We are the most filmed nation on earth .
Are we film stars or have we become prisoners on our own island? Are we free men and women or are we numbers?
Impossible.
Anyway, let's just enjoy the view, but be careful what you get up to... you never know who's watching you.
It's always struck me as funny that in order to stop other people taking the thing we love we are prepared to kill it ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI think we used to be numbers, but are quickly becoming a nation of email addresses!
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