LOCKOUT

LOCKOUT. James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, dir. and, with others, script. France: Europa Corp., FilmDistrict (sic on spacing; prod.) / Open Road Films (USA) and EuropaCorp. Distribution (dist.), 2012. Romek Delmata, prod. design. Oliver Hodge, Frank Walsh, art dir. In English. See IMDb for other details .

"Recombinant cinema," yielding a sci-fi prison movie where the feisty figurative princess — here, the daughter of a near-future US president — gets rescued, amid some sort of political intrigue in a dystopian future. Complexly significant for imagery of convicts in medically-induced stasis inside high-tech sarcophagi inside a thoroughly surveilled, high-tech prison on a space station — orbiting a moderately high-tech authoritarian world: for multiple layers of the superimposition of the electronic (etc.) upon the human. Complexly significant since Erlich can see no thematic significance to this imagery (zip, nada, bubkis), and if he, the manager of this wiki, sees none, it's unlikely anyone else will see significance. LOCKOUT elegantly demonstrates that such containment imagery remains available as tropes of thematic significance — but also clichés conveying minimal meaning.

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