Rating: - Illustrates where we are headed
with the continued dumbing down of the population and we just might be past the point of no return.
Rating: - The Truth doesn't hurt, unless it should
This production never received the recognition it deserves, perhaps because it is a mirror to politicians, leaders. and the movie industry.
Harrison Bergeron shows us a world in which we see social convention (currently called "political correctness") taken to its final extreme, where the Government shuts down the brains of smarter individuals in order to insure that no one feels bad about being below normal. Everyone is reduced to average stupidity.
The film is very well done, with examples again and again of why such a "solution" is something no sane person would wish.
Perhaps Harrison Bergeron should be required viewing in high school government classes, to open students' minds as to the proper role of government.
At any rate, watch this movie for an experience that will broaden your mind, as you see smart young kids sneaking into what might be called ... Read More
Rating: - Foreseeing PC Dystopia
A cautionary tale of political-correctness taken to its logical extreme in a leftist dystopia that enforces "equality" and no one is permitted the freedom of achievement or failure, since everyone is made to have the same ability ---whether they like it or not. Mediocrity and standardization are enforced on citizens by a totalitarian socialist government of well-meaning know-better elites (who are of course exempt from their own rules) until one young man rebels and threatens their order. In the vein of Orwell's "1984" or Animal Farm, this is a classic allegory for left-wing authoritarian hyprocrisy and supression of the individual's identity in favor of the "group."
Rating: - Funny results of America's communist revolution !
This is a funny dark sci-fi comedy based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story, an anti-communist allegory exploring the ultimate result of a communist revolution in America. The new subjects are required to submit to various handicaps to make them all "equal," including bands to stupify their brains, leg weights, etc. Of course it turns out it's all enforced by an elite class led by Christopher Plummer (The Sound Of Music, Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country).
As I recall the short story, it didn't go nearly as far as the movie, which is even more thought provoking and humorous. Sean Astin ("24," The Lord Of The Rings, Toy Soldiers) plays a citizen who's brain band doesn't seem to keep him dumb enough, so he's scheduled for surgery, which turns out to be a ploy to recruit him.
Astin's father, John Astin (The Addams Family), has a bit part; Eugene Levy (Cheaper By The Dozen 2, American Pie) ... Read More
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