Shawsank Redemption (1994) takes us into great isolation in a nasty humanization effort. You will be taken to the search for the meaning of the term Redemption behind the classic feel of a sad prison. The panoptic style of the building's architecture caused fear. The eye will become accustomed to dirty, unsuitable food, acute homosexual dynasties, hopeless humans and the colonization of freedom.
Brook (an old prisoner, a librarian who spent most of his life in Shawsank prison) was a victim of Shawsank. He clearly felt a sense of social isolation when he got out of prison - which led to his life hanging himself.
"In prison he is an important person. He's an educated man. Outside he is nothing. He was just a former inmate with arthritis of the hands. Maybe he can't get a library card even if he tries." Red said.
This symptom of alienation appears in the silhouette of Catholic monasteries for a long time. A panoptic mechanism that produces discipline is applied to support the vision and mission of a religious community. It is not only European-style architecture that leaves a panoptic trail, but also patterns of life that have been systematized idealsm of authority. Then, does this kind of formation model really make good humanist missionaries?
Panopticon
Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher and social theorist in the mid-1700s, invented a social control mechanism that would become a comprehensive symbol for modern authority and discipline in the western world: a prison system called the Panopticon.
The basic principle for the design, which Bentham first completed in 1785, was to monitor the maximum number of prisoners with the fewest possible guards and other security costs. The layout (which is depicted below) consists of a central tower for the guards, surrounded by a ring-shaped building of prison cells.
The panoptic method guarantees intensive supervision and enforcement of discipline that can be carried out more easily. The heart of the panoptic mechanism lies in its architectural form. On the edge was a circular building which were prison cells with two open windows reinforced by iron bars: one led inward so that it was clearly visible from the watchtower located in the center of the circle of the building. Other open windows are directed outward so that the light illuminates the cell. So that all the prisoners' movements are clearly monitored. Prisoners do not know who or how many are watching. They only know that he is being watched.
The effect of this panoptic system causes the prisoner to have an awareness of being always under surveillance or in a permanent visible situation. The system allows surveillance to be carried out on an irregular basis, but the effect on consciousness is the feeling of being constantly watched. Panoptic is a form of supervision that makes it possible to obtain compliance and order by minimizing actions that are difficult to calculate or cannot be predicted. Supervision is carried out discontinuously, the effect is continuous.
Discipline and Norm
Discipline and norms are two different concepts, although they are sometimes related. Norms are rules that defend the integrity of shared values as a result of self-reference and group mechanisms. Norms allow comparison. Norms always represent the needs and interests of the public, in contrast to discipline.
