Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life.
Ant. True; save means to live.
The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1
I've searched in drabauer's meta-index about what the island is and I didn't find this theory.
There probably were some checking points in the island, but the "security
system" has malfunctioned and can't tell prisoners from guards anymore.
Or it is set to detect guilt and maybe the guards did something wrong
during their stay in the island, thus deserving the punishment from "the
machine".
- We've seen chained men in the Black Rock.
- We've seen that Kate and Sawyer are known criminals.
- We've seen that possibly there are more criminals on the island (their
flashbacks can be a lie to cover their crimes):
Jin: Murder.
Jack: Medical malpractice.
Charlie: Drug running, theft.
Claire: Selling a baby. Fortune hunting?
Artz: His wive "didn't sign up for this".
Sun: Accesory to Jin's murder.
Locke: ?
Hurley: Drug dealer, insurance fraud, arson.
Shannon: Fraud, blackmail
Boone: ?
The french woman admitted to have killed several people.Possible parallels:
- Escape from New York (1981) -> Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken)
- Escape from Absolom (1994) -> Ray Liotta.
The both films have in common that the prisoners are isolated to create
their own hell type society.
Please read the plot of Escape from Absolom (SPOILER in green):
Robbins is sent to prison for the assassination of his general officer,
a prison you only get out of when you die. Since nobody ever gets out
of the prison, nobody knows how the prison is like. The prison manager
has realized this and bought himself an island (playground) called "Absolom"
where the worst prisoners are let lose to create an isolated barbaric
society where the strongest men rule - a living hell. This is where Robbins
is dropped off after he almost kills the prison manager.
lacenaire
Theres a Ray Liotta moview from 10 years ago about an island used as a
free-range prison camp. Beach people (nice) versus inland dwellers (mean).
Ancientwanker
This is a bunch of horse shit right here if you ask me about the island
being a prison I mean. That would be such a let down if the show was based
on some movie that probably wasn't even all that good.
Trapin89
Lieing in a flashback is a BIG screenplay NO-NO. It doesn't serve any
purpose and when the audience finds out you lied you lose them. Boone's
little hallucination was close enough to crossing that line.
Ridiculous idea
leftofpunk