Fortress turns a prison into an integrated technological system designed to control bodies from the inside. Surveillance is only one part of the threat; punishment has been built into the inmates' physical experience. The science fiction premise makes institutional power tangible through walls, procedures and enforced routines. Watch how the escape story depends on learning the system rather than merely overpowering guards, and how the film gives personal attachment a disruptive value in a place organized around compliance.
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Fortress
1993 / VIEWING NOTES
Fortress turns a prison into an integrated technological system designed to control bodies from the inside.