I have always been fascinated by this particular TV series from the day I've started watching it. It has always startled me with this connection I had for it. And as I've started watching it again today and figured out what's been going on my mind at that time.
The prison break as a TV series concentrates on Michael Schofield, a desperate guy trying to break his brother out from a high security prison called Riverfox because he thinks that his brother was framed. It of course has a lot of dramatic effects and anticipation involved in getting the spectators to watch the episodes continuously. A lot of action is going on as well and above all, I thought his strategic planning was what attracted me the most. He has the map of the whole prison tattooed into his body and has planned everything in advance. He has done the background studies of the respective personnel and found out their weaknesses. These weaknesses are exploited in order to get exactly what he wants from inside the prison itself.
As much as these facts and the plot made me interested in the TV series, there has always been something subtle working on. I think I saw the prison as one's mind. The prison has good guys and bad guys inside, well to start with, you don't go to the prison if your a good guy, but keeping the datum out of the normal societal level and moving into the prison system, we can readily define good guys as well as bad guys inside. This black and white differentiation makes one to think about their mind as a prison and the feelings inside as prisoners trying to burst out. Another way to see it is that, the mind bottles up all kinds of feelings and keep a tight control on them just as the guards do to prison inmates. But somehow or other, a notorious prisoner always gets past the guard and bust out of the prison by some means. Is this not the case with the flow of thoughts too? Some way or other, if a feeling is too determined not to give up, it always bursts out from the mind. It may make a difference, it may even screw things up, or sometimes mend things, but somehow a prison break happens. And the irony of this is that, these kind of prison breaks happen all the time, sometimes even without us knowing that such thing happened. It is actually the beauty of the flow of thought, you never know when something will burst out, even you exercise the tightest control over it.
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Upul Senanayake

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