Fortress (1992): Did They REALLY Need All That Tech?

Okay, so I just rewatched Fortress (1992) and I gotta say, even though it's got Christopher Lambert at PEAK Christopher Lambert (the scream!), I keep coming back to one thing: was all that tech REALLY necessary? Like, the Intestinator? Dream scanners? It feels like they built the whole prison around the gimmicks, not around, you know, actually keeping prisoners in. "The future of incarceration is here!"... but is it good incarceration? My theory is that it's all about control theater. Landru, anyone? Strom, the director, he clearly gets off on having absolute power. It's not enough to just lock them up; he needs to get inside their heads, literally. The dream sequence is a big giveaway for me. It's not about security, it's about dominance. Like when he says, "His freedom is an insult to my order!" when Lambert is talking with the lady in the vents. He's more concerned with the symbolism of control than the practicality of it. And honestly, some of the security measures are laughably inefficient. Everyone remembers the scene where Lambert figures out the blind spot on the camera?! I mean, come on! Who designs a super-prison with blind spots? It's like they focused so much on the flashy stuff that they forgot about the basics. "Hasta la vista, baby" to any realistic security protocols, I guess! He basically outsmarted that entire prison using like, ingenuity. So, yeah, my theory is that Fortress is less about future prisons and more about a power-hungry dude with too much budget. Plus, the whole thing kind of fallsl apart the moment someone thinks to blow up the main computer, right? Not very "future of incarceration" if it can all be undone by a few well-placed explosives. And maybe SOMEONE ought to rethink the whole 'pregnant lady in maximum security' deal, just a thought.