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M: the panopticon, surveillance
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M envisions a society of total surveillance.
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| The state bureaucracy maintains extensive records on citizens. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The camera spies on Beckert in the cafe. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Beckert is touched by unseen social forces that in some way parallel the uncontrollable forces within him.
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| the opening sequence experimentation with film sound point of view and identification mirrors and shadows the official world and the underworld street scenes social issues |
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