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To: PJ-Comix
Maybe 1984? Talk about a dark movie, but really well done. Maybe also the brilliantly witty Brazil. I guess both are more anti-totalitarian than specifically anti-communist.

Another vote for Other People's Lives which I've heard great things about but haven't seen yet.

23 posted on 02/09/2008 5:46:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
Whoops -- make that Lives of Others...
24 posted on 02/09/2008 5:47:43 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

My problem with adapted works like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc is that they have been taken to be warnings against a possible totalitarian US which was never the authors’ intent.

Orwell was critical of Socialism, specifically the abuses under Stalin but also the acceptance, tolerance, and silence by global Socialists of Stalin’s evil deeds.


42 posted on 02/09/2008 4:42:58 PM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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