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A review by joannaautumn
Cinema Panopticum by Thomas Ott
3.0
How can something so short leave a big impact?
5 stories are connected by the main character, a little nameless girl visiting a fair. Having little money, she can't pay for any games so she wanders off and finds a cinema with 5 short films each low cost.
All of the stories have a mixture of realism and fantasy, and the lack of words leaves the "reader" relying on his vision to see what is the true meaning of the main story and 4 substories.
That being said all of the characters from the five stories are already present at the fair, and the word panoptic means all-seeing, in an ethical sense the panopticon is a disciplinary concept where the people are being watched by an "all-seeing" guard and they never know that they are being watched.
This book brings the idea of a materialistic community in a panopticon, and the main question arises, who is the watcher?
5 stories are connected by the main character, a little nameless girl visiting a fair. Having little money, she can't pay for any games so she wanders off and finds a cinema with 5 short films each low cost.
All of the stories have a mixture of realism and fantasy, and the lack of words leaves the "reader" relying on his vision to see what is the true meaning of the main story and 4 substories.
That being said all of the characters from the five stories are already present at the fair, and the word panoptic means all-seeing, in an ethical sense the panopticon is a disciplinary concept where the people are being watched by an "all-seeing" guard and they never know that they are being watched.
This book brings the idea of a materialistic community in a panopticon, and the main question arises, who is the watcher?